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Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors added four New York Police Department officers turned authors - Joseph L. Phillips, Patrick Picciarelli, Joe Poss and Gene Radano.

Joseph L. Phillips has authored three novels since his retirement from the New York Police Department. According to an interview by Sandra S. Sawyer, “Many of his story ideas are from episodes in his own life. Joseph told Sandra that "I had the fortune during my youth to have been halfway around the world by the time I was nineteen years old, thanks to the U.S. Navy. I also lived on the French Riviera for two years, which inspired me to write my first novel, Beyond This Place of Sin and Tears. After that, I spent two years in the Merchant Marine and then twenty years with the New York Police Department. If that background doesn't give you material to write about, nothing will." His other novels are: “The Soldiers of Summer” and “This Side of Forever.”

Patrick Picciarelli retired from the New York Police Department as a lieutenant. He holds both a B.A. and two Masters Degrees and is a licensed private investigator. He is often called upon by various news organizations to lend expertise to stories related to criminal investigations and writing and has appeared on numerous TV programs. He is the author of “Blood Shot Eyes,” a crime fiction novel about a former NYPD detective turned private investigator who investigates murder and blackmail in the big apple. He is also the co-author of two nonfiction books, “Jimmy the Wags: Street Stories of a Private Eye” and “Mala Femina.” He is a member of The Society of Professional Investigators, The Writers Guild of America, The International Association of Crime Writers, Mystery Writers of America and Private Eye Writers of America.

NYPD Police Officer Joe Poss shows the reader crime and police work in the 75th Precinct in his book “Brooklyn Bounce: The True-Life Adventures of a Good Cop in a Bad Precinct.”
Writing in the 1960s, Gene Radano explored policing in New York in his books “Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other” and “Walking the Beat.”

Police-Writers.com hosts 208 state and local police officers and their 565 books in six categories. Also, Police-Writers.com features listings of federal and international law enforcement writers.