Duty, Death and Crime

Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who have written books. The website added three police officers: Michael P. Tremoglie; Maria Watson; and Reuben Greenberg.

Michael P. Tremoglie is a former Philadelphia Police Department police officer. Michael P. Tremoglie is currently a staff writer for The (Philadelphia) Evening Bulletin and a columnist for FrontPage Magazine. His work has regularly appeared in publications such as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, Human Events, Pittsburgh Tribune Review and the Lansdale Reporter. He has a BA in accounting and a Masters in Criminal Justice. He is the Author of A Sense of Duty.

According to the Philadelphia Bulletin, A Sense Of Duty “does for big city police training what Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam classic, "Full Metal Jacket" did for U. S. Marine boot camp. Tremoglie's attention to detail and understanding of the psychological hazards circling around his characters draws its readers into a world fraught with pending disaster, mixed with the joy of accomplishment, and then hit with the harsh reality of the eventualities its inhabitants tried so hard to avoid. A Sense Of Duty deals with clashes between cultures, social status, ideologies, political parties, races, sexes, along with hopes and dreams.”

In 1976, Maria Watson and her twin sister Margie were part of the first 100 women hired for patrol duty by the Philadelphia Police Department. During her law enforcement career, Maria Watson worked uniformed patrol, narcotics, juvenile aid division and sex crime’s child abuse unit. She retired from the Philadelphia Police Department in 1996. She is the author of the novel Dead in Fairmont Park.

According to the book description of Dead in Fairmont Park, “Michelle Burns, Philadelphia Police Lieutenant, like other female African American lieutenants without a squad to command, was buried behind a desk in homicide. That all changed when the third body was found in Fairmount Park's nature trails.”

Reuben Greenberg was the African American Chief of Police of the Charleston Police Department (South Carolina). In 1967, he received a BA degree from San Francisco State University and he has two master’s degrees, one in public administration and the other in city planning, both from the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught sociology at California State University, political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and criminal justice at Florida International University.

His career in law enforcement spanned three states before he arrived in South Carolina in 1982. While in California, he served as the undersheriff of the San Francisco County Sheriff's Department. A Savannah, Georgia, he was a major with the city's police department. In Florida, he was chief of police at Opa-Locka and chief deputy sheriff of Orange County, rising to deputy director of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Reuben Greenberg is the author of Let's Take Back Our Streets!

According to Publisher’s Weekly, “Greenberg disputes the contention that law-breakers are victims of circumstance; they commit crimes by choice, he argues, and ought to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. He also stresses that the function of punishment is, indeed, to punish. This is a book of tough talk from a police chief who firmly believes that we are all accountable for our actions and urges both police and citizens not to surrender to hopelessness about crime.”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 680 police officers (representing 305 police departments) and their 1455 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.