Cops, Civilians and New Releases

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.