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Police Books
List Grows
August 24, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who
have written books. With addition of
Kevin Hughes,
Douglas Vaughn and
Clarence Lee, Police-Writers.com has grown to
718 police officers and their 1536 books.
Kevin Hughes has over 27 years of law
enforcement experience.
Kevin Hughes joined the Shorewood Hills Police
Department in 1974. In 1978, he joined the
Dane County Sheriffs Office (Wisconsin).
In 1984, he was promoted to detective and is considered a senior detective for
the
Dane County Sheriffs Office. Writing under
the pen name of Charles Porter, he is the author of Just Another Shade
of Blue. According to the book description, When Detective Conrad
Garrity is called to the scene of a body discovered in a remote park, he knows
it will be a tough case: the victim is a 13 year old girl who has been missing
for several weeks. Internal conflict within his own agency creates instant
heartburn and fueling the frenzy is a prolific small market television
reporter.
According to one reader of
Just Another Shade of Blue, I found this book to have all the elements
needed to make reading a pleasant experience. The characters take on a life all
their own. It is very apparent that Charles Porter has worked in the detective
field for many years, as the plot is believable and is interesting until the
very end. This is a book that rates right up there with some of the best I've
ever read and I recommend it to anyone that takes pleasure in reading. One word
of caution, make sure you don't have any up and coming plans, the book is
difficult to put down
Douglas J. Vaughn graduated with honors from
the New York Institute of
Technology with a B.S. in
Criminal Justice. He is a former
United States Marine and Vietnam veteran,
having served as a forward observer for artillery, naval gunfire and air
strikes. He spent most of his thirteen-month tour in Vietnam just below the
Demilitarized Zone near the Cua Viet River with the 1st Amphibious Tractor
Battalion where he served with Ron Kovic, the author of Born on the Fourth of
July.
Douglas Vaughn is also a veteran of the
New York Police Department. While assigned to
the 48th Precinct in the South Bronx, he gave technical advice to Paul Newman
during the filming of Fort Apache The Bronx. He also worked in the 20th
Precinct on Manhattans upper West Side and in the Highway Patrol Unit. Douglas
Vaughn He spent his final years with the Police Department planning escorts for
dignitaries and was forced to retire in his twentieth year due to an injury
incurred while escorting former President George H.W. Bush. He is also one of
the 200, or so, officers who has been awarded the Police Combat Cross since its
inception in 1934. This second highest Department award is given for
exemplification of extraordinary bravery in armed combat.
Douglas Vaughn is the author of From the
Heights. According to the book description of From the Heights,
it begins in the New York City of the 1930s and takes the reader to the war in
the Pacific and the secret workings of the OSS in Italy and Switzerland during
World War II. It is a story of the privileged that summer in South Hampton and
the poor who swim in the Harlem River. It is a story of social climbing and
empire building. It follows the lives and loves of two generations and delves
into the inner workings of the
New York Police Department and battles fought
by United States Marines in Vietnam.
According to James Allan Matte,
Ph.D, in Forensic Psychophysiology using the Polygraph, in 1938, Captain
Clarence D. Lee of the
Berkeley Police Department (California)
designed the Berkeley Psychograph. In 1953, Captain
Clarence Lee published The Instrumental
Detection of Deception: The Lie Test.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 718
police officers (representing 331 police departments) and their 1536
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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