Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch Delivers Remarks At Community Policing Forum In Seattle, Washington

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Remarks as prepared for delivery

Thank you, U.S. Attorney [Annette] Hayes, for those kind words – and for your extraordinary and longstanding service, sacrifice and leadership on behalf of this office and the people of the Western District of Washington.  I also want to thank Mayor [Ed] Murray and Chief of Police [Kathleen] O’Toole for their leadership, their dedication and their hospitality in welcoming me to Seattle today.  And I’d like to thank everyone who helped organize this important event.  It’s a pleasure to join so many distinguished representatives of law enforcement, city government, faith communities, advocacy groups and local schools as we come together to discuss the ongoing efforts here in Seattle and across the United States to protect our citizens, to empower our communities and to strengthen our most fundamental civic bonds.

We have seen, particularly over the last year, the importance of that effort.  From Ferguson to Baltimore and from Cleveland to New York City, we have witnessed the pain and the unrest that can ensue when trust between law enforcement officers and the communities they serve is damaged, broken, or lost.  In many cases, these tensions have their roots in a long and difficult history of inequality, oppression and violence and they speak to issues that have tested our country’s unity since its inception.  They will not be overcome with easy solutions or simple strategies.  Sweeping progress will not occur overnight.  But as Seattle’s recent experience can attest, real progress is possible – when we engage with one another, when we summon our goodwill and good faith and when we work collaboratively as partners with a mutual and shared interest in ensuring the safety and security of the communities we call home.

That is exactly the kind of common understanding that the Obama Administration, the Department of Justice and I personally want to help foster – and I am committed to using all of the tools at my disposal to create positive and lasting change.  One year ago, the Department of Justice launched the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice – a comprehensive effort to enhance training, promote research and develop sound policy that will bolster law enforcement credibility, ensure procedural justice, minimize implicit bias and advance racial reconciliation.  The Office of Justice Programs, under the direction of Assistant Attorney General [Karol] Mason, is partnering with law enforcement agencies at the state and local level, providing resources like grants, training and technical assistance.  Our Civil Rights Division – led by the outstanding Vanita Gupta, who is joining us today – continues its work with police departments around the country to ensure constitutional policing in their jurisdictions, just as it did to great effect here in Seattle, in partnership with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.  And our Office of Community Oriented Policing Service or COPS Office – under its wonderful Director, Ron Davis, who is also here with us today – is helping to ensure that local law enforcement officers have the resources they need to serve their communities fairly, faithfully and effectively.

These efforts are ongoing.  Just a few days ago, I was proud to announce that the COPS Office is providing more than $107 million in new grants to support the hiring and retention of approximately 870 officers at roughly 200 agencies and to promote training aimed at expanding community policing and building community trust.  I also announced that, through the Body-Worn Camera Pilot Partnership Program administered by our Bureau of Justice Assistance, we will provide more than $19.3 million to 73 local and tribal law enforcement agencies across the country to implement body-worn camera programs designed to enhance accountability and transparency for law enforcement and communities.  And finally, I was pleased to announce that our Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is supporting a unique partnership between the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the Coalition for Juvenile Justice as part of a new initiative to create positive interactions and relationships between young people and the police officers in their communities.

These are all promising endeavors and I am hopeful that they will contribute to the progress we would all like to see.  But I also know that real change is spearheaded by those who are grappling with real problems every day – and our goal is to tap into the innovative programs and exciting ideas that are emerging from communities across the country.  That’s why I embarked on a multi-city community policing tour to learn about – and bring attention to – some of the innovative programs that are getting results in localities from coast to coast.  I’ve already made stops in Birmingham, Alabama; Cincinnati, Ohio; East Haven, Connecticut; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the first phase of the tour will conclude tomorrow in Richmond, California.  All of these cities have experienced profoundly challenging police community relationships.  But through hard work and collaboration – between civic leaders and public safety officials like the ones here with us today – all of them have made important strides in creating and sustaining meaningful change.

I am here in Seattle today because this city’s leaders – all of you around this table and your partners beyond this room – have demonstrated your commitment to making progress – together – on behalf of your fellow citizens and for the good of this great city.  Three years ago, Seattle entered a consent decree with the Justice Department to remedy a pattern or practice of excessive force in policing.  Thanks to the consent decree and the commitment to change it represented, the Seattle Police Department has adopted policies and instituted trainings to address bias, curtail the use of force and implement new mechanisms of accountability.  Those reforms have not only led to positive results in Seattle, but have become a model for similarly situated departments throughout the country.  I am proud of the important steps Seattle already taken and I promise you that the Department of Justice will be there as your partner as we continue this important work.

And so, as we continue this conversation, I want to thank you all again for your partnership, your hard work and your devotion to this vital cause.  I am excited to have this opportunity to speak with you today.  And I look forward to all that we will achieve in the days and months ahead.

Traffic Collisions and Police Management

January 12, 2008 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who have written books. The website added one international police author and two domestic police authors.

R. W. “Bob” Rivers (Inspector, Officer-in-charge, Traffic Branch, Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Retired) is the author of various internationally recognized and utilized traffic crash investigation and reconstruction textbooks published by Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd., Springfield, Illinois, and the Institute of Police Technology and Management (IPTM), University of North Florida.

As an Institute of Police Technology and Management faculty member, he acts as a technical advisor, directs IPTM's correspondence training programs and carries out various projects such as the development of traffic crash investigation courses and Traffic, Crime Scene, Marine and Aircraft crash investigation templates.

Bob Rivers travels internationally, carrying out research involving traffic crash investigation and reconstruction training programs. Upon request he will provide assistance, advice and/or suggestions on an international basis in terms of training programs and arrangements for lecturers/speakers for Accident Investigation and Accident Reconstruction related seminars and conferences.

Inspector R.W. “Bob” Rivers is the author of over eight books on traffic accidents such as Traffic Accident Investigator’s Manual: A Levels 1 and 2 Reference, Training and Investigation Manual and Identification, Interpretation And Analysis of Evidence.

According to the description of Traffic Accident Investigator’s manual: A Levels 1 and 2 Reference, Training and Investigation Manual, “It is the traffic accident investigator's role to determine, through the gathering of evidence and an analysis of circumstances, that which is an accident and that which is not. This manual launches the trainee on the road to the scientific approach to determining which incident falls into what category. The text clearly outlines the steps to be taken when the report of a traffic accident is received, travelling to the scene, the at-scene investigation, and any follow-up investigation that may be required.”

Chief Paul T. “Tim” Dickinson started his law enforcement career in 1977. He has served in several police agencies in the metropolitan Philadelphia, PA area. His past assignments have included patrol operations, patrol supervisor, criminal investigations, undercover narcotics investigation, and tactical operations command. He has served as a chief of police since 1992. Paul Dickinson is a graduate of Temple University and the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy in Quantico, VA.

Chief Paul Dickinson instructed recruits in the police academy for more than ten years and has also conducted various training programs for police supervisors and elected officials. He serves as a law enforcement consultant for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and numerous police agencies and communities throughout Pennsylvania. Currently, Paul Dickinson is the chief of police of the Towamencin Township Police Department (Pennsylvania). Chief Paul Dickinson and Chief William Heim are the co-authors of Police Management: Real World Scenarios.

Chief William M. Heim’s law enforcement career spans more than 25 years and service with six police agencies. He began his career with the Upper Moreland Police Department and is now the chief of the Reading City Police Department (Pennsylvania). Chief William Heim holds a Bachelor degree in English and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and the Senior Management Institute for Police conducted by the Police Executive Research Forum.

He has been an instructor at Montgomery County Community College and Augusta State University. He has also taught recruits in the police academy and provided in-service training to veteran police officers. In year 2000 he was selected by Governor Tom Ridge to serve on the Pennsylvania Municipal Police Officers Education and Training Commission. Chief William Heim is currently a consultant on police management issues with the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development.

Chief William Heim has authored articles appearing in Police Chief, Law and Order, Emergency Medical Service, and The Pennsylvanian magazines.

According to the book description of Police Management: Real World Scenarios, “Even though police officers receive months of training in the police academy before they hit the streets, most learn to be good cops by responding to an endless variety of calls for assistance from the public. Becoming a proficient police manager is a challenging but rewarding journey. This book seeks to help in this journey by applying the principles of leadership to real-world situations. Each chapter consists of a dialogue or story involving police managers facing problems and issues regularly dealt with by police agencies. Each chapter concludes with a review of the lessons learned, ensuring that the reader achieves maximum benefit.”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 828 police officers (representing 375 police departments) and their 1750 law enforcement 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.

814 Cops in 2007

December 30, 2007, 2007 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who have written books. With the addition of three California police officers the website ended the year with 814 listings of police officers who have written books.

Robert Cole is a retired sergeant from the East Palo Alto Police Department (California) and the author of Under the Gun in Iraq.”

According to the book description of Under the Gun in Iraq, “Robert Cole - a retired California police officer hired by DynCorp as an international police trainer - presents a vivid account of the challenges of training the Iraqis to handle their own security. In blunt, everyday language, Robert Cole gives the reader an unusually candid and often hair-raising glimpse into reality at the street level as he and his colleagues navigate the dangerous sectors of Baghdad, Tikrit, and Kirkuk, dodging explosions and bullets aimed at them by young, Iraqi, wannabe heroes.”

Retired Chief Elvin G. Miali started his Law Enforcement career in 1967, with the City of San Gabriel in Los Angeles County. He began as a Patrolman, then he promoted to Detective, Detective Sergeant, Lieutenant Watch Commander, Lieutenant in charge of the Detective Bureau and finally Captain. In 1986 he was appointed Chief of Police of the
Fountain Valley Police Department (California). He was Police Chief for 17 years, prior to his retirement in 2003.

Chief Elvin G. Miali participated in many Oral Boards and Assessment Centers and observed how difficult it was for many officers to do well in the promotional process. For this reason he wrote the book entitled Unless You're The Lead Dog, The Scenery Never Changes. According to the book description, “He has developed various testing programs and will share with you the inside scoop into the testing process which is not available to everyone. He has assisted many of his officers with one-on-one consultations regarding the testing process. This type of information is coming from the "top" and
Chief Miali knows what the administrators of police agencies want from their candidates, because he was there and made those decisions.”

Joseph C. DeLadurantey was appointed Chief of Police for the City of Irwindale on August 1, 2001 and served until his retirement in 2005. He had served as the interim Chief for one month. Prior to his appointment he was the Law Enforcement Liaison for the District Attorney of Los Angeles County for four years. With over 40 years in law enforcement, he has served as the Chief of Police for the City of Torrance for 5 1/2 years and spent 27 years with the Los Angeles Police Department where he attained the rank of Captain. He retired from law enforcement at the end of 2005 and is currently a management consultant to the public sector.

He is an Associate Professor of Public Administration in the graduate school of Public Administration at Cal State Northridge, has published textbooks and articles for professional journals and lectures throughout the country on various topics. He is currently completing his dissertation and will be receiving a doctoral degree in Public Administration from the University of La Verne in 2007. He is the author of Homicide Investigations Standards Textbook and co-author of Criminal Investigation Standards.

Police-Writers.com now hosts 814 police officers (representing 367 police departments) and their 1726 law enforcement 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.

Police History and Military Fiction

October 26, 2007 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com is a website that lists nearly 800 state and local police officers who have written books. The website added three authors who have written police history, military fiction and on crime prevention.

Kevin J. Mullen served for more than twenty-six years with the San Francisco Police Department and retired at the rank of deputy chief. He has written extensively in magazines and newspapers on criminal justice issues. He is the author of Let Justice Be Done: Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco, Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 1850-2000 and The Toughest Gang in Town: Police Stories From Old San Francisco.

According to the book description of Dangerous Strangers: Minority Newcomers and Criminal Violence in the Urban West, 1850-2000, “Have newcomers to American cities been responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime? Dangerous Strangers takes up this question by examining the incidence of criminal violence among several waves of immigrant/ethnic groups in San Francisco over 150 years. By looking at a variety of groups--Irish, German, Italian, and Chinese immigrants, primarily--and their different experiences at varying times in the city's history, this study addresses the issue of how much violence can be attributed to new groups' treatment by the host society and how much can be traced to traits found in their community of origin.”

Chief Steven J. Newton is a 25-year law enforcement veteran and a former Marine/Navy veteran. He served with the 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division. With the Navy, he was with NAVACTS-UK-318 and was called back to active duty for the first Desert Storm. Steven J. Newton began his law enforcement career in 1977 when he joined the Springfield Police Department (Missouri). In 1995, he became the chief of police of the Clever Police Department (Missouri).

Now retired and afflicted with Parkinson’s Disease, he continues to write article for various law enforcement, military and veteran publications. He is also the author of the Old Sergeant and the Old Sergeant and Friends. Steve Newton continues to serve on the Advisory Board of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and serves as Director of the Law Enforcement Equipment Program. He is the Founder of the Silver Star Families of America and he is a supporter of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance.

According to the book Description, “The short stories of The Old Sergeant compile many different aspects of the human character, including inspiration, tragedy, honor and humor. He is fictional, but his life, and the lives of the men he commands, become very real to the reader as the stories come together as one. One life lived and some lives lost. Through the war in Iraq and reflections on past wars won, now a distant memory, the Old Sarge is someone who most everyone can relate to. There is a real-time sense in all of the stories told, to be embraced into the reader’s mind and heart.”

William Langlois is a retired San Francisco Police Department police officer and the co-author of Surviving the Age of Fear/Life-Saving Lessons for Senior Citizens from San Francisco's Heroic Decoy Cop Who Was Mugged 256 Times. According to Booklist, “Langlois had a record of successful performance as a decoy in past stings when he was recruited to play the role of The Old Man on a short-term undercover RAT (robbery abatement) team formed in 1987 (and reestablished in 1988) to cut the rate of violent robberies of the elderly in and around their homes in San Francisco's Tenderloin district.”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 783 police officers (representing 352 police departments) and their 1670 law enforcement 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.

Domestic and International Police Books

Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who have written books. Two domestic police officers and one international police officer were added to the website.

James Harper Walker served in the United States Army from 1953 to 1956. He began his law enforcement career with the Willoughby Police Department (Ohio) where he served in patrol for two years. He then joined the Waite Hill Police Department (Ohio) were he served for eight years, attaining the rank of detective. He then became the Assistant Chief of Police for the Huron Road Police Department (Ohio). James Walker then moved into the private security field where he held a number of managerial and executive level positions. He has a BA in Business Administration and is the author of four books: Man in Blue; Bushytail the Squirrel; Rambling in Rhyme; and, the novel Inside your Local Police.

According to the book description of Inside your Local Police, “follow police Lieutenant James MacDonald (Mac) as he tries to solve The Claw Hammer murder case. While being constantly interrupted with assorted armed robbers, gang fights, gun fights and domestics.”

Gerald W. Boyd is the Communications Director for Baker County’s Consolidated 9-1-1 Dispatch Center. Jerry Boyd is also concurrently the Deputy Chief of the Baker County Fire Authority and the Deputy Director of the Baker County Office of Homeland Security. Jerry recently managed the complete remodeling and expansion of their 9-1-1 PSAP.

Gerald W. Boyd has been the Chief of Fire Company 50, Shasta County, CA Fire Department (1999-2003), the Chief of Police of the Martinez Police Department (California) (1991-1996) and the Chief of Police of Coronado Police Department (California) (1981-1991). Jerry Boyd’s law enforcement career also includes working at the Irvine Police Department (California) as a police lieutenant and SWAT commander and with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department as both a deputy sheriff and sergeant.

Jerry Boyd has designed, fabricated and staffed Mobile Incident Command Units for over 25 years. He is well versed in Tactical and Special Operations deployments. Considered an expert in the field of PSAP Management and Supervision, Jerry holds Basic through Management POST Certificates and is a popular Police and Fire Academy Instructor. He has written five books, including three on emergency communications subjects and over three dozen articles in professional journals. Among his books, he is the author of The Will to Live--Five Steps to Officer Survival and the co-author of Incident Dispatcher: A Guide for the Professional Tactical and Incident Dispatcher.

According to the book description of Incident Dispatcher: A Guide for the Professional Tactical and Incident Dispatcher, “After years of articles, web sites, and presentations, this is the first book to examine the concept of Incident Dispatch. The authors’ purpose is to provide basic, essential guidelines for establishing an Incident Dispatch program, how to function as an incident dispatcher, and how to manage an incident dispatch team in your agency or region. It is written from more than a decade of personal experience in IDT operations, management, and training, validated by the ongoing use of hundreds of incident dispatchers and their supporting public safety and communications agencies nationwide.”

Julie Hryniewicz-Hache was hired by the Ontario Provincial Police in 1995 as a Provincial Constable. During her law enforcement career she served in five detachments of the Northeast Region of Ontario. Today, Julie Hryniewicz-Hache is a keynote speaker, workshop leader and author. According to Julie, “My purpose revealed itself through my adversity. Despite divorce, depression, illness, and bankruptch, I am so blessed for every step of my journey.” Julie Hryniewicz-Hache is the author of Natural Balance: How To Energize, Heal, & Simplify Your Life.

Police-Writers.com now hosts 726 police officers (representing 335 police departments) and their 1556 police 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.

Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who have written books. The website added three police officers who have contributed works of fiction: Jim Malloy, Mike Elliot and Mike Smitley.

Jim Malloy, a retired captain from the San Diego Police Department, has over 28 years of law enforcement experience. As a police officer he worked patrol and traffic; as a sergeant he worked motorcycle patrol. After promotion to Captain he was the commanding officer of the central and southeast division, SWAT and other administrative positions. Upon retirement he founded his own private investigations firm in San Diego.

Jim Malloy is a graduate of the FBI academy and has a BS in criminal law. He hold advanced California POST certificates and has served as a law enforcement consultant to other law enforcement agencies including in Spain. Jim Malloy is the author of five novels: Death Whispers; Die Mother Goose Die; Lollipop Murders; Raptor’s Revenge; and, The Twister.

According to the book description of Death Whispers, “With his brother dead, It was his responsibility as head of the family to set things right. Gabriel, nicknamed the Ghost, was pure Cajun protecting his younger brother and sister since age eleven in the swamps of the bayou. Taught to survive by an old Choctaw Indian, he seeks justice for his brother with his bow and arrow. Sergeant Jack Delaney, head of the Doom squad, is stumped. This was a first. Why were these males, seemingly unrelated, showing up with arrows stuck in their heads. Why is the CIA and FBI so interested and why should he be afraid? The hunter is hunted.”

Mike Elliot is a detective with the Poplar Bluff Police Department (Missouri). He joined the Poplar Bluff Police Department in 1978 and recently transferred from the Narcotics Division to Criminal Investigation. Mike Elliot is the author of Jake and Bob: Stories of the Poplar Bluff PD. According to the book description, “All professions have their stories. These are the stories of the police of Poplar Bluff, a smallish city at the foothills of the Missouri Ozarks. These are stories that men who need heroes and comfort tell each other. They define a certain aspect of a police officer’s life in Poplar Bluff. Sometimes sad, often funny, but always told in the voice of real coppers—they are our legends and folk history. Follow Jake and Bob as they try to figure out just what it means to be a police officer. Maybe in the end you will find out for yourself.”

Mike Smitley has over thirty years of law enforcement experience. He began his career in a small Kansas police department and over time worked patrol, detectives and as a sergeant. He retired from that department in 1997. He then became the Chief of Police for a small police department in Wisconsin. He left the Wisconsin department to become the chief of police of the Junction City Police Department (Kansas). Mike Smitley has a BS in criminal justice and a Master's in the Administration of Public Affairs.

After his police career, Mike Smitley began writing and also established his own publishing company, Father’s Press. Mike Smitely is the author of Dead Files, Prey and Implied Contract.

According to the book description of Mike Smitley’s Implied Contract, “in the world of law enforcement, there are few things more complicated and exasperating than the investigation of a serial murder. Multiple victims and multiple crime scenes require extra attention and extraordinary analytical skills. The rare instance of a sniper serial killer is perhaps the most challenging investigation of all. With little evidence and lots of danger, a high-powered rifleman represents an investigator's worst nightmare. That nightmare has come true for the characters in Implied Contract.”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 634 police officers (representing 279 police departments) and their 1353 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.

First two from Idaho

Police-Writers.com is a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books. The website added the first two police officers from police departments in the State of Idaho that have written books: Steve Roos and Scott Shaw.

Steve Roos is a captain on the Idaho Falls Police Department (Idaho). He is also the author two novels: Deep Cover and Double Jeopardy. According to the book description of Deep Cover, “When young undercover police officer Jeff Foster takes on a special assignment--that of investigating Dennis Margo, a major drug dealer--he doesn't realize just how far the case will take him. He works his way into the dark world of drugs and violence, becoming the personal bodyguard to a dealer and an eyewitness to cold-blooded murder as he attempts to close in on a dangerous drug lord. Along the way he finds himself confronting some troubling questions: How far should he carry his undercover identity? Is his work compatible with his membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? And how much should he reveal to Stephanie Evans, the woman he loves?”

Scott Shaw served 17 years with the Pocatello Police Department (Idaho). He went on to become the chief of police for the Preston Police Department (Idaho). He has two decades experience in criminal profiling and interrogation techniques; he developed the Investigative Protocol for Sex Offence Investigations, currently used by numerous police departments. His tenure as the chief of police, Preston Police Department, ended with his 2005 conviction on two felony counts. He pled guilty to using public money for personal purposes and then lying about it under oath.

Scott Shaw a the co-author of Eye of the Beast: The True Story of Serial Killer James Wood. According to Publisher’s Weekly, “Convicted and sentenced to death in 1993 for the kidnapping and murder of an 11-year-old Idaho girl, James Wood has been credited with at least 85 rapes, 185 robberies and dozens of murders. In this compelling if incomplete report, Birmingham News writer Adams, forensic psychologist Brooks-Mueller and former Pocatello PD investigator Shaw, who spearheaded the investigation, tell Wood's horrific story in straightforward language, evidently understanding that sensationalism would lessen the impact.”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 578 police officers (representing 244 police departments) and their 1219 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.

History, Management and Tactics

Police-Writers.com is a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books. This round of additions to the website includes a police officer who has written an extensive history of one department as well as a police officer who has contributed to the making of law enforcement history.

Sergeant Sven Crongeyer has been employed with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for 17 years. His passion for historical research led him to write Six Gun Sound: The Early History of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which traces law enforcement efforts to meet the challenge of public safety that from the beginning were both enhanced and hampered by the influx of ranchers, cowboys, farmers, miners, gunfighters, and gamblers. Los Angeles was a den of iniquity that rivaled even the most famous towns of the Old West: Silver City, Tombstone, Dodge City, and Wichita.

Edward M. Davis was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1969 through 1978. Later, he was a California State Senator from 1981 to 1993. He also made an unsuccessful bid as the Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1986.

Ed Davis pursued innovative approaches to crime. He balanced his tough law-and-order rhetoric with a boots-on-the-ground policing strategy that assigned police officers to specific neighborhoods in an effort to build personal ties with residents. His philosophy was incorporated in a program he called the "Basic Car Plan,” which divided Los Angeles into small geographical areas and assigned officers to meet with community representatives. Edward Davis, who assigned almost 900 officers to the program, believed that police would be more effective if their duties were tailored to each locality. The officers were instructed to find out which crime problems concerned residents the most and then devise crime-fighting plans.

Edward Davis also created the Neighborhood Watch program which encouraged police officers to spend time in the homes of local city residents, listen to their concerns and then set up effective crime fighting initiatives. Moreover, Ed Davis developed the idea of team policing wherein interdisciplinary groups of police officers were assigned as a unit to small, specific, geographic area. These interdisciplinary groups consisted of uniformed police officer, detectives and traffic enforcement officers working together on specific neighborhood crime problems.

Ed Davis’ programs were highly innovative for their time. Significantly, in the 9 years that Edward M. Davis served as police chief from, 1969 to 1978, crime rates actually dipped slightly by 1% in Los Angeles while rising nationwide by 55%. Furthermore, while subsequent Los Angeles Police Department police chiefs would dismantle or significantly reduce the programs, by the beginning of the 21st Century, more than two decades after his tenure as chief, the programs would either return wholesale, or new policing tactics would involve significant portions of Davis’ ideas.

In 1978, Senator Edward M. Davis authored Staff One: A Perspective on Effective Police Management. The term “Staff One” is the LAPD radio call sign for the Chief of Police.

Gabriel Suarez is a former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy sheriff and owner of Suarez International, a company that provides training in weapons, tactics and combat. Gabriel Suarez is the author of seven books on tactics and firearms: Tactical Pistol Marksmanship: How to Improve Your Combat Shooting Skills; Tactical Advantage: A Definitive Study Of Personal Small-Arms Tactics; The Combative Perspective: The Thinking Man's Guide to Self-Defense; Tactical Pistol: Advanced Gunfighting Concepts And Techniques; Tactical Shotgun: The Best Techniques And Tactics For Employing The Shotgun In Personal Combat; Tactical Rifle: The Precision Tool For Urban Police Operations; and, Force on Force Gunfight Training: The Interactive Reality-based Solution.

According to Gabriel Suarez, “Today the police training I offer is a concepts-based, aggressive approach to gunfighting. I’ve taught this system all over the United States, as well as in Europe, Central America, and Africa. The police training involves some range work, but it also incorporates hand-to-hand combat and a good bit of interactive police training (force-on-force). This eclectic method of police training makes some traditional shooting teachers very uncomfortable, but progress sometimes does that to people. I’m not so concerned with fitting into a certain methodology as I am with accomplishing the mission of winning the fight.”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 524 police officers (representing 217 police departments) and their 1117 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.

Lost pets, cop jobs and police history

Police-Writers.com is a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books. Police-writers.com add three authors whose books are about finding lost pets; law enforcement jobs; and, one who is part of the historical body of work on professional law enforcement.

In 1948, Lieutenant W. R. Kidd of the Berkeley Police Department authored Police Interrogation. In the forward of the book, August Vollmer stated, “The author presents to his readers a first-rate work on the subject of interrogating complainants, witnesses, suspects and defendants, and while he makes no claim for a complete and scientific work on interrogation, he does present the practical, workable experiences of years of service in the police field.”

Kathy "Kat" Albrecht was a police officer, field training officer, detective and K9 handler for the University of California at Santa Cruz Police Department. According to her website, “During her ten-year career as a search dog handler, Albrecht and her dogs located physical evidence, missing people, and criminals. In 1996, Albrecht's bloodhound A.J. escaped from his yard and was missing. In her panic, Albrecht brought in another search dog that she used to successfully track down A.J. This is what sparked the idea, "Why not train dogs to track lost pets?" In their first four searches, Kathy Albrecht and her search dog Rachel physically located two lost cats and one lost dog. Since 1997, Albrecht has effectively utilized law enforcement techniques and technologies to recover lost pets and has trained several other search dogs and human pet detectives.

In 2001, Kat Albrecht founded Missing Pet Partnership, a national nonprofit organization that is working to research the behavioral patterns of lost pets, educate pet owners in how to properly search for a lost pet, and educate animal shelter staff and volunteers in the science of lost pet behavior. In 2004, Kat Albrecht founded Pet Hunters International, a pet detective academy that will train and certify Missing Animal Response Technicians, Investigators, and MAR search dogs trained to locate lost pets. Kat Albrecht’s first book, her memoir, The Lost Pet Chronicles: Adventures of a K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective, explores her transition from police detective to pet detective.

Randy E. Narramore is the Chief of Police of the Huntington Park Police Department (California). He has dedicated the past twenty-six years of his life to law enforcement. Chief Randy Narramore has an A.S. Degree in Police Science, a B.S. Degree in Administration of Justice, and a Masters Degree in Public Administration. He is also a graduate of the FBI. National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. He has received numerous professional awards and has earned all of California's Peace Officer Standards and Training Certificates. Chief Randy Narramore also has extensive experience as a college instructor.

Chief Randy E. Narramore is the author of How to Prepare for an Interview and Obtain a Job as a Law Enforcement Officer; How to Become an Emergency Dispatcher; The Law Enforcement Assessment Center; How to Prepare for an Interview and Obtain a Job as a Firefighter; How to Pass the Written Exam for Police Officer; How to Pass the Written Exam for Police Supervisor; and, How to Prepare for a Law Enforcement Promotional Interview.

Police-Writers.com now hosts 521 police officers (representing 217 police departments) and their 1108 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.