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.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
LAPD’s 50Th Police Author
Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books, added four police officers to website; including the 50th Los Angeles Police Department police officer to have written a book.
Adam Matkowsky, a native New Yorker, is currently a Los Angeles Police Department police officer. His book, Nine-O-Adam, according to one reader, “chronicles his life and his dreams from the Military to the NYPD and finally, LAPD. The book includes some great stories about the author’s life and I especially enjoyed the stories about his experiences in the NYPD. A must read for all law enforcement Officers.” In addition to being added to Police-Writers.com, Matkowsky was added to LAPDAuthors.com; a website listing only LAPD authors and information.
Leslie T. White was an investigator for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office in the late 1920s. His 1936 book, Me, Detective, is an autobiographical work. He also wrote Harness Bull and Homicide; as well as for detective magazines of that period.
Lieutenant Winona M. Franz retired from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Her book, Guiltless, is a true crime novel and “is a skillfully woven account of real cases investigated by author.” According to the book description, “the perpetrator begins his crime spree with a vicious child molestation followed by a series of rapes, burglaries and culminates with a senseless murder. Fearful, uncooperative victims, and a family deeply involved in a mysterious folk religion, hamper the investigation.”
Jonathan Nerlinger, a veteran of the Huntington Park Police Department (California) published True Blue: A Policeman’s Story. His work is the fictional account of a police officer’s life. According to one reader, “This is by far one of the better books I have read. The author takes you through the life of John Nolan, a young police officer. From his first day of deciding on a career in law enforcement until the day he retires. It also touches on his personal life too. His marriage and his family which made the book even more interesting. It really gives you a good look into what a tough and challenging career being a police officer really is and how much things have changed over the years.”
Police-Writers.com now hosts 330 police officers (representing 141 police departments) and their 752 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. Moreover, NYPD still leads police departments nationwide with 78 police writers.
Adam Matkowsky, a native New Yorker, is currently a Los Angeles Police Department police officer. His book, Nine-O-Adam, according to one reader, “chronicles his life and his dreams from the Military to the NYPD and finally, LAPD. The book includes some great stories about the author’s life and I especially enjoyed the stories about his experiences in the NYPD. A must read for all law enforcement Officers.” In addition to being added to Police-Writers.com, Matkowsky was added to LAPDAuthors.com; a website listing only LAPD authors and information.
Leslie T. White was an investigator for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office in the late 1920s. His 1936 book, Me, Detective, is an autobiographical work. He also wrote Harness Bull and Homicide; as well as for detective magazines of that period.
Lieutenant Winona M. Franz retired from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Her book, Guiltless, is a true crime novel and “is a skillfully woven account of real cases investigated by author.” According to the book description, “the perpetrator begins his crime spree with a vicious child molestation followed by a series of rapes, burglaries and culminates with a senseless murder. Fearful, uncooperative victims, and a family deeply involved in a mysterious folk religion, hamper the investigation.”
Jonathan Nerlinger, a veteran of the Huntington Park Police Department (California) published True Blue: A Policeman’s Story. His work is the fictional account of a police officer’s life. According to one reader, “This is by far one of the better books I have read. The author takes you through the life of John Nolan, a young police officer. From his first day of deciding on a career in law enforcement until the day he retires. It also touches on his personal life too. His marriage and his family which made the book even more interesting. It really gives you a good look into what a tough and challenging career being a police officer really is and how much things have changed over the years.”
Police-Writers.com now hosts 330 police officers (representing 141 police departments) and their 752 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. Moreover, NYPD still leads police departments nationwide with 78 police writers.
Friday, February 16, 2007
Angels, Blue Warriors and the Media
Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books, added three state and local police officers as well as one federal law enforcement official to the growing list.
Paul Stuligross has been in law enforcement for over 19 years. Currently, a police officer with the Novi Police Department in Michigan, his book, Birth of an Angel (published under the pen name Paul Stuart), “chronicles the life of a cop who has lost his faith and to whom God has decided to assign an angel. The story is told from two perspectives: the perspective of the cop and his friends, and the perspective of the angel. Thus, many of the horrific things the officer sees and cannot understand are at seen differently when the angel experiences the same things.”
O.J. Moravek joined the Newark Police Department 1970 after emerging from the Vietnam era military with an honorable discharge at the rank of corporal. As of 1995, he worked at the Newark Police Department Headquarters reviewing and assigning the detective work and assisting victims of crime. About his book, The Blue Warrior, he stated, "I have been fortunate in having a cat's nine lives. Still, in facing down those situations, I now feel I have something to offer in the way of real life experience to my fellow officers, and the public in general." He donated a portion of the royalties from his book to the Newark Police Department for the continued development of better protective clothing and material for police officers.
Gary Nitchman, MPA, retired as a sergeant from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department where he served as a Public Information Officer. Upon his retirement, he entered the field of law enforcement education and served as an Associate Professor with Rio Hondo College in Whittier, California for ten years and as chairperson of the Administration of Justice Department at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu Community College for six years. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Service Management from the University of Redlands and a Master of Pubic Administration degree from the University of Southern California.
His book, Media Survival Guide, helps the reader explore, “from press releases to live on-scene interviews.” Additionally, his book assists police officers in “confidently and successfully handle encounters with the media and understand the importance of fostering a cooperative rather than adversarial relationship. In an era where a high profile case can put any agency under the media's spotlight, this book is a "must read" for all law enforcement officers.
Paul E. Doyle served as a Special Agent in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Doyle was a member of the US Army 10th Special Forces Airborne detachment and 2nd Infantry division. A former NEAAU Diamond Belt Heavyweight boxing champion, Doyle has boxed both nationally and abroad. Doyle is a Certified Critical Incident and Crisis Intervention Peer Counselor and a member of a Critical Incident Response Team. Doyle is Chairman of the New England Chapter of the Association of Former Federal Narcotics Agents. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and family.
In Doyle’s Book, Hot Shots and Heavy Hits: Tales of an Undercover Drug Agent, he “bluntly chronicles the riveting, true stories from his years on the inside. Known on the street by his alias, "Paulie Sullivan", he recalls his rookie days, trying to infiltrate the criminal drug world under the tutelage of his veteran partner, through his coming of age as an experienced narc, sharing his keen observations on ruined lives, personal peril, and government red tape along the way.”
Police-Writers.com now hosts 317 police officers (representing 136 police departments) and their 738 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.
Paul Stuligross has been in law enforcement for over 19 years. Currently, a police officer with the Novi Police Department in Michigan, his book, Birth of an Angel (published under the pen name Paul Stuart), “chronicles the life of a cop who has lost his faith and to whom God has decided to assign an angel. The story is told from two perspectives: the perspective of the cop and his friends, and the perspective of the angel. Thus, many of the horrific things the officer sees and cannot understand are at seen differently when the angel experiences the same things.”
O.J. Moravek joined the Newark Police Department 1970 after emerging from the Vietnam era military with an honorable discharge at the rank of corporal. As of 1995, he worked at the Newark Police Department Headquarters reviewing and assigning the detective work and assisting victims of crime. About his book, The Blue Warrior, he stated, "I have been fortunate in having a cat's nine lives. Still, in facing down those situations, I now feel I have something to offer in the way of real life experience to my fellow officers, and the public in general." He donated a portion of the royalties from his book to the Newark Police Department for the continued development of better protective clothing and material for police officers.
Gary Nitchman, MPA, retired as a sergeant from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department where he served as a Public Information Officer. Upon his retirement, he entered the field of law enforcement education and served as an Associate Professor with Rio Hondo College in Whittier, California for ten years and as chairperson of the Administration of Justice Department at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu Community College for six years. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Service Management from the University of Redlands and a Master of Pubic Administration degree from the University of Southern California.
His book, Media Survival Guide, helps the reader explore, “from press releases to live on-scene interviews.” Additionally, his book assists police officers in “confidently and successfully handle encounters with the media and understand the importance of fostering a cooperative rather than adversarial relationship. In an era where a high profile case can put any agency under the media's spotlight, this book is a "must read" for all law enforcement officers.
Paul E. Doyle served as a Special Agent in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Doyle was a member of the US Army 10th Special Forces Airborne detachment and 2nd Infantry division. A former NEAAU Diamond Belt Heavyweight boxing champion, Doyle has boxed both nationally and abroad. Doyle is a Certified Critical Incident and Crisis Intervention Peer Counselor and a member of a Critical Incident Response Team. Doyle is Chairman of the New England Chapter of the Association of Former Federal Narcotics Agents. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and family.
In Doyle’s Book, Hot Shots and Heavy Hits: Tales of an Undercover Drug Agent, he “bluntly chronicles the riveting, true stories from his years on the inside. Known on the street by his alias, "Paulie Sullivan", he recalls his rookie days, trying to infiltrate the criminal drug world under the tutelage of his veteran partner, through his coming of age as an experienced narc, sharing his keen observations on ruined lives, personal peril, and government red tape along the way.”
Police-Writers.com now hosts 317 police officers (representing 136 police departments) and their 738 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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