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Tom Owens, a former Los Angeles Police Department police
officer co-wrote Lying Eyes: The Truth Behind the Corruption and Brutality of the LAPD and the Beating of Rodney
King.
According
to Kirkus reviews, the book is “an inside look at the Rodney King case, the ensuing trials, and the L.A. riots that
followed, by the private detective hired by King's attorney to investigate the police officers' conduct and provide
security for the beleaguered beating victim. A former L.A. policeman, Owens does not claim to tell ``the Rodney King story,''
but rather, with the help of Hollywood writer Browning, to give ``the factual version.'' In reviewing his own 12 years
on the LAPD (he's oddly vague as to dates, when he resigned and why, what he did prior to opening his agency, etc.), he
contends that the violence demonstrated by the officers that night in March 1991 is systemic, and that there is a ``code of
silence'' that helps ``explain the attitudes of some of the officers'' caught in the act on George.”
One reader of Lying Eyes:
The Truth Behind the Corruption and Brutality of the LAPD and the Beating of Rodney King said, “I was
generally glued to this book, although the technicalities of the workings of the LAPD left me lost or vacant, at times. I
had the rare occasion to work with the author for six weeks during an Army public relations tour in Nicaragua, and his insights
into life in the LAPD and life, as a cop, in general, furthered to set the stage for the book. Tom Owens is a well-read, knowledgeable
man in workings of life as a private detective and cop. I wouldn't want him investigating me!”
Another reader of Lying
Eyes: The Truth Behind the Corruption and Brutality of the LAPD and the Beating of Rodney King said, “This
book doesn't pull any punches in reporting the facts surrounding the Rodney King case, the incident that led to it, and
what happened afterward. As a former LAPD officer and a private investigator, the book's author, Tom Owens gives an objective
look at one of the most controversial cases in our nation's history, reporting the facts that he collected.”
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