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Police-Writers.com is a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books. Two police officers and a civilian police writer were added to the website; as well as new release from police officer was added to his listing.
Dr. James D. Harris has a doctorate in psychology, which he earned while working full-time as a Deputy Sheriff for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. His has 28 years of law enforcement experience, including almost three years experience as the director of the peer counseling program for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. According to his book description, “The Hands of the Carpenter is an invaluable survival guide for police officers, whose occupation subjects them to endless hours of tedium and monotony, periodically interrupted by moments of sheer terror.”
Richard Holbrook has 35 years of experience in law enforcement and private security. He retired from the Los Angeles Police Department with the rank of lieutenant. He has a BS in public management and a masters in public administration. According to the book description of Political Sabotage: The LAPD Experience; Attitudes Toward Understanding Police Use of Force, “the book is focused on society’s most unknowing and conflicting attitudes toward the use of police force to control violence and crime. The author calls on his years of teaching and research background to craft a surprisingly uncensored, politically incorrect, and sometimes caustic look into the nation’s ambivalent attempt to affect a less deadly and hostile social environment. The political attitudes of the community and is representatives are also contrasted by factual accounts of their affects on policing, police culture and society in general.”
Richard Holbrook was also added to the listing of Authors of the Los Angeles Police Department.
John Ball, winner of an Edgar Award for In the Heat of the Night, found his research into novels about police officers so interesting and he became a reserve deputy for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Indeed, his last book which was published posthumously, The Van: A Tale of Terror, is about the search for a pair of serial killers by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s homicide division. In the Heat of the Night “tells the story of Virgil Tibbs, a black detective tracking a murderer in a small Southern town. The novel inspired both the 1967 film starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger and the television series starring Carroll O’Connor and continues to delight readers with its gripping narrative and honest look at race relations during the Civil Rights Era.”
Due out this month, April 2007, is John Briant’s sixth book and fifth in the Adirondack Detective series. According to John, the book is “a continuation of P.I. Jason Black's adventures, whereby he and a state police lieutenant are threatened by an escaped federal prisoner from a federal prison in Michigan.”
Police-Writers.com now hosts 457 police officers (representing 192 police departments) and their 959 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.
September 4, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added three police authors – Vincent E. Henry (New York Police Department), John H. Briant (New York State Police) and Richard Neal Huffman (Bangor Police Department).
Vincent E. Henry earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the City University of New York (John Jay), and is associate professor and director of Long Island University's Homeland Security Management Institute. He earned B.A. and M.S. degrees from Long Island University (C.W. Post Campus) and an M.Phil. degree from the City University of New York. A first responder to the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attack, Vincent retired from the New York Police Department in 2002 following a 21-year police career in which he served in a wide variety of uniformed and plainclothes patrol, undercover decoy, training, investigative, supervisory and management assignments.
Vincent Henry is the author of numerous publications in the fields of law enforcement management, police corruption and reform, psychological trauma, terrorism, and homeland security. His books include "The COMPSTAT Paradigm: Management Accountability in Policing, Business and the Private Sector" and "Death Work: Police, Trauma, and the Psychology of Survival"
John H. Briant was born in Theresa, New York. He served three years and three months with the 27th Infantry Division, 108th Infantry, until 1950, when he entered the U.S. Air Force, during the Korean War. In 1953 he became a member of the New York State Police, where he served in Troop "D" and in Troop "B." He was a Station Commander from 1960-1963. His fascinating autobiography, “One Cop’s Story: A Life Remembered,” details his life and service with the New York State Police.
Briant is also famous for the Adirondack detective series. The crime novels take place in the Adirondacks Mountains of New York. The Adirondack area comprises six million acres and is larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky, and Everglades National Parks combined. Briant introduces the character of Jason Black, retired State police member and private investigator. Black, a man at the prime of middle age, works wholeheartedly for his world of small towns, long lakes, and large forests, where honest people care about and reach out to help one another. Briant has written both a frightening crime adventure and a tribute to the spirit of the Adirondack.
Richard Neal Huffman was born the son of a sharecropper. At the age of two his parents migrated to southwest Michigan. At 20, Richard was drafted into the United States Army where he served as a medic. After discharge, he joined the National Guard and later the Army Reserves. Richard joined the Bangor Police Department and throughout his career he would serve as a patrol officer, training officer, sergeant, detective and assistant chief of police. Richard’s first book, “Dreams in Blue: The Real Police,” is an autobiographical journey that takes the reader inside the world of the small town cop. He introduces the reader to people, situations, and a culture that is both interesting and unique. Richard’s second book, “Rubal,” is a fictional account of a Union soldier during the Civil War.
Police-Writers.com hosts 110 police officers and their 334 books in six categories.