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Police History
and Military Fiction
October 26, 2007 (San Dimas, CA)
Police-Writers.com is a website that lists nearly 800 state and local police
officers who have written books. The website added three authors who have
written
police history, military fiction and on crime
prevention.
Kevin J. Mullen served for more than twenty-six
years with the
San Francisco Police Department and retired at
the rank of deputy chief. He has written extensively in magazines and newspapers
on
criminal justice issues. He is the author of
Let Justice Be Done: Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco, Dangerous
Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 1850-2000
and The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories From Old San Francisco.
According to the book description
of Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the
Urban West, 1850-2000, Have newcomers to American cities been
responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime? Dangerous Strangers
takes up this question by examining the incidence of criminal violence among
several waves of immigrant/ethnic groups in San Francisco over 150 years. By
looking at a variety of groups--Irish, German, Italian, and Chinese immigrants,
primarily--and their different experiences at varying times in the city's
history, this study addresses the issue of how much violence can be attributed
to new groups' treatment by the host society and how much can be traced to
traits found in their community of origin.
Chief
Steven J. Newton is a 25-year
law enforcement veteran and a former
Marine/Navy veteran. He served with the 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, 4th Marine
Division. With the Navy, he was with NAVACTS-UK-318 and was called back to
active duty for the first Desert Storm. Steven J. Newton began his
law enforcement career in 1977 when he joined
the Springfield Police Department (Missouri). In 1995, he became the
chief of police of the
Clever Police Department (Missouri).
Now retired and afflicted with
Parkinsons Disease, he continues to write article for various
law enforcement, military and veteran
publications. He is also the author of the Old Sergeant and the
Old Sergeant and Friends.
Steve Newton continues to serve on the Advisory
Board of the National Association of
Chiefs of Police and serves as Director of the
Law Enforcement Equipment Program. He is the
Founder of the Silver Star Families of America and he is a supporter of the
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance.
According to the book
Description, The short stories of The Old Sergeant compile many
different aspects of the human character, including inspiration, tragedy, honor
and humor. He is fictional, but his life, and the lives of the men he commands,
become very real to the reader as the stories come together as one. One life
lived and some lives lost. Through the war in Iraq and reflections on past wars
won, now a distant memory, the Old Sarge is someone who most everyone can relate
to. There is a real-time sense in all of the stories told, to be embraced into
the readers mind and heart.
William Langlois is a retired
San Francisco Police Department police officer
and the co-author of Surviving the Age of Fear/Life-Saving Lessons for
Senior Citizens from San Francisco's Heroic Decoy Cop Who Was Mugged 256 Times.
According to Booklist, Langlois had a record of successful performance as a
decoy in past stings when he was recruited to play the role of The Old Man on a
short-term undercover RAT (robbery abatement) team formed in 1987 (and
reestablished in 1988) to cut the rate of violent robberies of the elderly in
and around their homes in San Francisco's Tenderloin district.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 783
police officers (representing 352 police departments) and their 1670
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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