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Police
Books from California Police Officers
September 8, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who
have written books. Police-Writers.com added three police officers from
California who have written books.
Dr.
Douglas W. Perez is an Associate Professor of
Sociology and
Criminal Justice at the State University of New
York, Plattsburg. From 1970 to 1975, Douglas Perez was a deputy sheriff for the
Contra Costa County Sheriffs Office
(California). Currently, Dr.
Douglas Perez teaches courses in the
criminal justice field and has significant
experience also in the sociological theory area. His classroom foci include the
study of the police, law and society, the drug war, and introductory level
courses. Dr.
Douglas Perez is the author of The
Paradoxes of Police Work and Common Sense about Police Review. His is
also the co-author of
Police Ethics: A Matter of Character.
According to the book description
of
Police Ethics: A Matter of Character, Police
officers make thousands of important, life-changing decisions
everyday. In order to promote and ensure justice, these decisions must be fair
and even-handed.
Police officers cannot think or act as if they
are free to define what is legal and what is illegal or to decide who is
inherently good and who is inherently bad. They must act in an ethical manner.
Yet, police officers are given a limited amount of training in
police ethics.
At the age of 14,
Jim Wagner began to his life long pursuit of
self-defense by beginning his study of the marital arts. Four years later he
joined the
United States Army. In 1991 Jim Wagner,
sponsored by the
Costa Mesa Police Department, entered the
police academy (Orange County Sheriffs Department Training Academy Class 104).
Like his military training before, Jim Wagner was deeply influenced by the
police academys realistic conflict scenarios.
During his career with the
Costa Mesa Police Department,
Jim Wagner earned a place on the
SWAT team. It was through this conduit that Jim
learned about logistics, command post operations, hostage negotiations, entry
team tactics, and sniping. On the job training included courses with
LAPD SWAT, the U.S. Army Special Forces, the
Orange County Sheriffs Department Tactical Training Center, and from U.S.
Marines Division Schools Camp Pendleton (Advanced Sniper Course, Military
Operations Urban Terrain, Helicopter Rope Suspension Training, and Range Safety
Officer).
While conducting a myriad of
courses at Camp Pendleton, both military units and other
law enforcement agencies using the base for
their own training discovered
Jim Wagners unique approach to training and
his seamless blending of defensive tactics with edged weapons and firearms
skills. Before long he was getting offers from the
United States Marine Corps, U.S. Marshals
Special Operations Group, Department of Defense Police, California Highway
Patrol, California Department of Corrections, San Diego Sheriffs Department,
Los Angeles Probation Department, U.S. Border Patrol, Immigration &
Naturalization Service, U.S. Navy and U.S. Marines Provost Marshal Office, Drug
Enforcement Administration. By 1996 Jim found himself being invited by foreign
unit to train in their own countries: GermanGSG9, Brazilian G.A.T.E.,
Argentinean G.O.E., Royal Canadian Mounted Police, London Metropolitan Police,
Helsinki Police Department, and various units in Spain, Mexico, and Israel.
The demand on
Jim Wagners time was overwhelming and in 1999
he decided to resign from the
Costa Mesa Police Department and started
teaching full time. Not wanting to fully give up his
law enforcement career Jim applied as a Reserve
Deputy at the Orange County Sheriffs Department. Jim Wagner is the author of
Reality Based Personal Protection.
Designed as a companion book to
Jim Wagners best-selling instructional DVD
series, Reality-Based Personal Protection provides eight detailed
chapters. According to the book description, Reality-Based Personal Protection
system covers the complete tactical spectrum of pre-conflict, conflict and
post-conflict techniques and training methods for a wide variety of worst-case
scenarios. Mastering these tactics will educate you on the dangers of the modern
world and how to survive them.
David A. Hansen was a captain with the
Daly City Police Department (California). He
is the author of
Police Ethics, An Analysis of Police Concepts
and Programs, The Police Training Officer, Closed Circuit Television for Police
and The Police Leader: A Handbook.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 732
police officers (representing 339 police departments) and their 1568
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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