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The Gangs
of Los Angeles
August 13, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists over 700 state and local police
officers who have written books. The website announced that LAPD police officer
and author
William Dunn published his second book.
William Dunn, a Detective Sergeant with the
Los Angeles Police Department and a former
CRASH officer and renowned
gang expert, has published his second book
The Gangs of Los Angeles.
William Dunn has instructed
law enforcement nationwide regarding the
current MS-13 gang epidemic.
William Dunn is also the author of Boot:
An L.A.P.D. Officer's Rookie Year.
According to the book
description, The
Gangs of Los Angeles describes that
there is no gang turf more desperately unique than that hidden among the 464
square miles which make up the City of Los Angeles. It is a fragile place; both
tantalizing and repulsive, where wild fires can scorch hill-top celebrity homes
as easily as gang members decimate a housing project with automatic rifle fire.
The
Gangs of Los Angeles is a classic, real
life account of American crime. From the early Tomato Gangs of 1890's Boyle
Heights to the modern Crips and Mara Salvatrucha, with side trips through an
Irish Dogtown, the gang wars of "Happy Valley", Sleepy Lagoon and the yellow
journalism of the Hearst Press, and a tragic murder at Sunset and Vine, Dunn
recounts the events and notorious denizens that spawned LA's gang subculture.
For more information on The Gangs
of Los Angeles visit
www.police-writers.com/dunn.html.
According to the Library Journal,
Boot: An L.A.P.D. Officer's Rookie Year, is a refreshingly
unpretentious first-person account of a rookie cop's experiences on the mean
streets of L.A. Dunn tells of his first days: learning the ropes from more
experienced officers, feeling the rush of adrenaline when confronting dangerous
situations, learning the codes and behaviors of street gangs, confronting the
fact of death, and developing the uniquely strong bonds that exist among
individuals working under hazardous conditions. What sets this apart from many
other cop narratives is Dunn's avoidance of self-aggrandizement and his ability
to portray incidents realistically and dramatically.
One reader of Boot: An
L.A.P.D. Officer's Rookie Year, said, I was skeptical, I am of most law
enforcement related books that I read. Mr. Dunn, as you will see, has a very
thoughtful and easy to understand approach to explaining something that no book
will ever really accomplish. If you are interested in this as a career, buy it,
it'll give you a clue and its worth your time. If you are already in the
profession, buy it, you will learn something, and its worth your time. (you also
wont be disappointed, trust me!)
Police-Writers.com now hosts 705
police officers (representing 325 police departments) and their 1522
police books in six categories, there are
also listings of United States federal
law enforcement employees turned authors,
international police officers who have written books and civilian police
personnel who have written books.
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