Monday, June 04, 2007

Atlanta, Seattle and Tucson

Police-Writers.com is a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books. Police-Writers.com added police officers who have written books from Atlanta, Seattle and Tucson.

Marc Harrold is a cum laude graduate of the University of Mississippi, School of Law where he received his J.D. He received his B.A. in Political Science from Clemson University. Prior to law school, Marc Harrold served the Atlanta Police Department as both a patrol officer and on a narcotics task force. He is currently a part-time police officer with the Oxford Police Department (Mississippi). Marc Harrold “has been published numerous times in law reviews, bar journals magazines and newspapers primarily in the areas of constitutional law, civil rights, First Amendment, identity theft, technology issues and immigration, asylum and refugee litigation.

Marc Harrold is the author of Observations of White Noise: An 'Acid Test' for the First Amendment and 5 Days Out: The Industrial Poetry of Delta Don McKabe. He is also the co-author of Mississippi Criminal Trial Practice (with Ronald J. Rychlak). According to the book description of 5 Days Out: The Industrial Poetry of Delta Don McKabe, “5 Days Out is the fictional, yet reflective, poetic journey recorded by "Delta" Don McKabe during his last days as a death row inmate inside Louisiana's famous Angola State Penitentiary. Hailed as an innovator in what has been tagged "industrial poetry," McKabe's verse speaks of the love, loss, fear and anger of a turbulent life while at the same time revealing an ironic glimmer of hope in the words of a condemned man.”

Steve Pomper has been a Seattle Police Department police officer since 1992. His assignments have included: Patrol, Community Police Team, and he served as a Field Training Officer for six years. Steve Pomper is the author of Is There a Problem, Officer? A Cop’s Inside Scoop on Avoiding Traffic Tickets. According to Steve Pomper, “It’s sad when drivers try to whine their way out of tickets they deserve, but it’s tragic when drivers talk officers into writing tickets they initially intended as warnings.” According to the book description, the reader will learn “when pulled over, it's not time to debate or argue; don’t mistake officer safety for officer rudeness; don’t take being stopped personally. It’s not about who you are; it’s about what you did; and, the phrases, and actions, that almost guarantee you'll get a ticket.”

Thornton Edwards is medically retired from the Tucson Police Department after 20 years of service. According to the book description of his book, Dancing with Ice, “What's it like to shoot someone, and then watch him die? Michael Callahan was about to find out. He was a street cop who always knew how to handle a situation. Why was this time different? His profession became his mistress and this destroyed his marriage. His world started to crumble, but the worst was yet to come. He was about to become a victim of the streets he protected. Michael Callahan had to face what he feared most: losing his health and his control. Based on a true story, this novel brings to life the trauma of an everyday hero.”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 570
police officers (representing 238 police departments) and their 1205 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.

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