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Police Books
from Wisconsin and California
August 26, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who
have written books. The website added one police officer from
Wisconsin and two from
California.
During his over twenty-eight year
law enforcement career, Detective
Joseph L. Butts, worked for the
Milwaukee County Sheriffs Office (Wisconsin).
Joseph Butts worked assignments in the courts,
uniformed patrol, the bicycle detail and the detective bureau. He was the first
African American Sheriffs Deputy to be assigned regular patrol duties in
several south suburban communities of Milwaukee county; and, the first African
American deputy sheriff to be assigned undercover drug assignments in Milwaukee
County suburban communities. Moreover, during his career, Joseph L. Butts
worked Internal Investigation, the
Organized Crime Unit and investigated crimes
throughout Milwaukee county. Detective
Joseph L. Butts wrote a book about his
experiences, Crime and Other Critical Social Ills: As Seen from Behind the
Badge.
According to one reader of
Crime and Other Critical Social Ills: As Seen from Behind the Badge,
This book shows how things can happen at a moments notice and how individuals
react or don't react. This book could pertain to any Law Enforcement Department
in the country. Being a member of the same department that Det. (retired) Butts
was in, and reading his book, makes me understand crime, justice and the
department better. I just wish I knew him personally.
Larry Ragle is the retired Director of
Forensic Sciences in Orange County,
California. During his career he has
investigated countless high-profile homicides, including lending his expertise
to the defense team in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Larry Ragle was a
criminalistics major at UC Berkeley where he received a Bachelors of Science
degree in 1959. This program focused on laboratory examination of all types of
physical evidence and on crime scene investigation techniques.
Larry Ragle began his
law enforcement career with the
Berkeley Police Department in 1956. He was a
police officer for the
Berkeley Police Department until 1960.
Larry Ragle is the author of Crime Scene.
According to the book description
of Crime Scene, Each week, millions of Americans tune in to watch
CSI and CSI-Miami. Featuring the latest forensic fads and tools, these shows
take a seemingly unsolvable mystery and unravel it in a primetime hour based on
minute pieces of evidence to solve the crime. Just how do Forensic Teams and
Labs accomplish these amazing feats? How do they turn a stray piece of hair into
the key clue that leads police to the criminal? In Crime Scene,
Larry Ragle offers the benefit of his 43+ years of experience and walks us
through real-life crime cases to explain how different forensic methods are used
and applied.
A former police officer with the
Berkeley Police Department (California),
James N. Gilbert joined the University of
Nebraska (Kearney) as the
Criminal Justice department as Chair in 1988.
Dr. James N. Gilbert received his BC from California State University, Long
Beach; his MS from Eastern Kentucky University; and, his Ph.D., from the
University of Southern Mississippi. He is the author of
Criminal Investigation and
Criminal Investigation: Essays and Cases.
According to the book description
of
Criminal Investigation, With interest
in
criminal investigation at an all time high, the
newest edition of this popular text is particularly useful. One of the most
comprehensive reviews of the investigative process available, it covers the
fascinating history and future implications of field. A thorough discussion of
cutting-edge investigative methods and technology employed to combat emerging
crimes prepares readers to enter the next generation of
criminal investigation. Using detailed crime
scene examples, it links specific investigative techniques and laboratory
techniques that are most effective for each particular crime.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 721
police officers (representing 332 police departments) and their 1540
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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