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San Francisco
Police Officers
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
San Francisco Police Department police
officers.
Sergeant
Peter Thoshinsky graduated from San Jose
State University in 1982 with a degree in
Criminal Justice. In June of 1982, he
joined the
San Francisco Police Department. He was
promoted to sergeant in 1990. He worked the Poterero, Central, Southern and
Ingleside Stations as well as the Narcotics Bureau. A 20 year veteran of
law enforcement he also served as a member
and supervisor on the
San Francisco Police Departments
SWAT team. A photograph for almost 30
years, he is the author of Blue in Black & White, a collection of
photographs relating to
law enforcement.
Inspector
Mark Hawthorne is a 28 year veteran of the
San Francisco Police Department. He has
been assigned patrol, field operations and investigations. His current
assignment is
Crime Scene Investigations. As a POST
instructor he specializes in Instructor Development, Preliminary Investigations
and Crime Scenes. As a an adjunct faculty member of the City College of San
Francisco Administration of Justice and Fire Science Department he acts as an
advisor to the
Forensic Science Club. Inspector Mark
Hawthorne is the author of First Unit Responder: A Guide for Physical
Evidence Collection for Patrol Officers and Fingerprints: Analysis
and Understanding.
According to the book description
of First Unit Responder: A Guide for Physical Evidence Collection for
Patrol Officers, Physical evidence cannot be wrong; it cannot perjure
itself; it cannot be wholly absent. Only its interpretation can err. Only human
failure to find it, study and understand it, can diminish its value." -Presiding
Judge, Harris v U.S., 331 U.S. 145 (1947) HOW TO MAINTAIN THE INTEGRITY OF THE
CRIME SCENE WHILE CONDUCTING AN INVESTIGATION. First Unit Responder: A
Guide to Physical Evidence Collection for Patrol Officers is a training
guide and reference for patrol officers and criminal investigators, who conduct
preliminary investigations of
crime scenes, to aid in identification,
collection, and booking of physical evidence. Written by a veteran of 24 years
of
law enforcement, the book stresses the
importance of understanding the critical nature of physical evidence and
preservation of the
crime scene as part of the case against a
criminal defendant. This book is an important tool for police academies that
train recruits and veteran patrol officers, as well as for students of
criminal justice who seek guidelines for
proper collection and handling of physical evidence
According to Corporal Andreas K.
Mendel, NCO in Charge,
Forensic Identification Section, West
Vancouver Police, in Canadian Society of
Forensic Science Journal, Mark Hawthorne's
easy writing style and use of personal anecdotes make this book a relaxed read.
First Unit Responder is a good resource for recruit training or
criminal justice/criminology students, or
as review material for seasoned investigators.
Prentice E. Sanders was the Chief of Police
of the
San Francisco Police Department for
fourteen months in 2002 and 2003. He was born in Texas and moved to San
Francisco's Laurel Heights at the age of fourteen. After serving in the Army,
he then received Bachelor's and Masters Degrees from Golden Gate University.
Prentice Earl Sanders joined the
San Francisco Police Department in 1964,
becoming the
San Francisco Police Department's first
African American chief of police. In 2006, Prentice Earl Sanders and co-
authored The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil
Rights.
According to Publishers Weekly,
The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights
is a look at a largely forgotten reign of terror in San Francisco in 1973 and
1974 is an interesting if superficial true police procedural. Sanders, the
SFPD's first African-American chief of police, was one of the lead detectives on
the case code-named the Zebra Murders, involving a group of African-American men
who, apparently racially motivated, were targeting whites in vicious random acts
of violence that claimed 15 lives. The book reads less like an objective
assessment of these events than a memoir of Sanders's experiences with the
investigation and his role in a civil lawsuit against the SFPD to combat rampant
racial discrimination. Oddly, about halfway in, the authors break the linear
narrative with information derived only at the case's end, rather than lay out
the police work and discoveries as they happened. The efforts to compare the
police tactics with post-9/11 targeting of Muslims will strike most readers as
labored despite Sanders's insistence that the killings were acts of political
terror, not mere serial killings. Nonetheless, this serves as a useful
introduction to the case.
Police-Writers.com now hosts 786
police officers (representing 352 police departments) and their 1674
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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