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Deputy Sheriff
Books
October 1, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists over 750 state and local police
officers who have written books. The website added three deputy sheriffs from
the
Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department.
Sergeant
Wesley D. McBride,
Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department (ret.),
spent 28 of his 35 year
career in law enforcement investigating gangs.
From 1972, until his retirement in 2002, he continuously worked street
gang investigations as an intelligence officer,
investigator or team leader. In addition to being a nationally recognized gang
expert, he is the past president of the California
Gang Investigators Association and the
National Alliance of
Gang Investigators Association. Wesley
McBride is the co-author of Understanding Street Gangs.
According to the book description
of Understanding Street Gangs, it offers a unique and pioneering
approach to the street and prison gang dilemma and provides both local and
national perspective. This popular book is used by colleges, universities, and
academies, and also for advanced officer training throughout the country. The
authors are leading authorities on gang activities. No other book offers such
insight or understanding into this escalating threat. It covers causative
factors, family structure and profiles, socioeconomic pressures, and drugs. It
also defines gangs, membership, structure and organization, communication, and
measurements of gang violence, offers perspective on gang activity, and suggests
possible solutions.
Detective Lieutenant
Frederick Price,
Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department (ret.),
served over 33 years in
law enforcement. After discharge from the
military, he joined the ranks of the
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Over a
33-year career he served in a variety of
law enforcement assignments including patrol,
vice, and special investigations. His last five years on the department were
spent monitoring and investigating cases involving casino gaming, Asian
organized crime, and
terrorism, which lends background to his
writing. He is the author of the novels Lair of the Dragon and
Dragons Ghost.
According to the book description
of Lair of the Dragon, It began with a simple lie. A concocted
report, written by a veteran cop, to close what he thought was an unworkable
case. And it wasn't intended to hurt anyone. When Metro Detective Sergeant Chad
Belmontes wraps up a case by falsely reporting he has met with the witness, he
unwittingly gives the witness an alibi for murder. Caught up in his lie, he
attempts to find the witness before his superiors can discover the truth. But
the witness has vanished. And what the detective doesn't know, but will soon
learn, is that his bogus report has set in motion a scenario of death and deceit
that will threaten to end his careerand his life. The more he searches for the
witness, the more complicated things become. It turns into a game of cat and
mouse leading to a ruthless Chinese crime boss who will go to any lengths to
prevent Belmontes from finding the witness and uncovering the real reason behind
his mysterious disappearance.
Professor
Stephen M. Passamaneck, Rabbi, Ph.D. is
Professor of Rabbinics at HUC-JIR/Los Angeles, where he has taught Talmud and
medieval Jewish legal material. Early in his career he wrote on maritime and
insurance law in Jewish sources. Since 1976, when he first affiliated with
law enforcement agencies as a chaplain, he has
written almost exclusively on
law enforcement and administration of justice
in Jewish sources. He was trained and sworn as a Reserve Deputy Sheriff and
served as a line Reserve for eleven years. He continues to serve as a volunteer
law enforcement chaplain with a federal
law enforcement agency. He was elected
President of the Jewish Law Association and has also been an officer of the
International Conference of Police Chaplains.
In addition to the eight books he
has authored or co-authored,
Stephen M. Passamaneck is the author of
Police Ethics and the Jewish Tradition.
According to the book description of
Police Ethics and the Jewish Tradition,
Jewish tradition has a great deal to say about morals and ethics in various
modern fields of public concern, including police ethics. In
Police Ethics and the Jewish Tradition,
author
Stephen Passamaneck explores three areas of
interest: loyalty, bribery and gratuities, and deception. Loyalty will always be
a part of police culture and administrators are faced with the task of
minimizing its abuses. Jewish tradition encourages the support of the
whistleblower who exposes wrongdoing for the sake of the public good. This can
sometimes lead to a clash between tradition and the "blue wall of silence."
Police-Writers.com now hosts 759
police officers (representing 347 police departments) and their 1635
law enforcement 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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