Police-Writers.com adds the 5 top police authors

September 2, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added five police authors, Juan Antonio Juarez (Chicago Police Department), Steve Albrecht (San Diego Police Department), Ralph Mroz (Leverett Police Department), David J. Rutter, (Uniontown City Police Department) and W. K. Brown, New York City Transit Police.

Juan Antonio Juarez worked seven years as a police officer for the Chicago Police Department. According to the American Library Association, Juarez’ book, “Brotherhood of Corruption: A Cop Breaks the Silence on Police Abuse, Brutality, and Racial Profiling,” “offers a harrowing inside look at the corrupt practices used by police in enforcing drug laws and the blue wall of silence that insulates them. No angel as a youth, Juarez jumped at the chance to become a cop, like his father, and the opportunity for stability, job security, and maybe a chance to correct some social ills. As a member of an elite narcotics unit, what he found instead were glaring inequities--repeated busts of street-corner dealers but a blind eye toward the dealing and use of drugs in more rarefied circles. He witnessed police abuse of power, beatings of suspects, sexual abuse of female suspects, and repeated use of racial profiling in arrests and prosecutions in the war on drugs. He succumbed to temptation and joined his colleagues in abuse and corruption. Disillusionment and his own personal demons eventually led to his downfall. This is a starkly revealing look at how urban policing oversteps the bounds of the law in the so-called war on drugs.” Juarez is currently an author and middle school teacher.

Steve Albrecht a retired police officer from the San Diego Police Department founded Albrecht Training & Development. His firm provides training and consulting on workplace violence prevention and threat management. Steve’s book, “Surviving Street Patrol: The Officer's Guide to Safe and Effective Policing,” advises fellow officers of measures they can take on a routine basis to improve their odds of going home. Whatever the challenge at hand - handcuffing noncompliant suspects; preventing suspect escapes; surviving group attacks; fighting on the ground; dodging bullets; protecting homicide scenes; or, dealing with the media - Albrecht has time-tested advice for handling it safely and effectively. Steve’s book serves as a valuable learning tool for those street cops, regardless of the size of their beat, agency, county or city.

Steve Albrecht has a doctorate in Business Administration and a master degree Security Management. He is an adjunct professor of criminal justice at Chapman University and Grossmont College. Steve has written four additional books: “Service, Service, Service,” “Added Value Negotiating,” “Tough Training Topics: The Presenter’s Survival Guide” and “Fear and Violence on the Job.”

Ralph Mroz is a police officer with the Leverett Police Department in western Massachusetts and is assigned to his county's narcotics/gang task force. Since 1973, Ralph has been a student of the martial arts. He is a well-known defensive tactics and firearms writer, with more than 250 articles published in professional law enforcement and use-of-force journals. In his first book, “Defensive Shooting for Real-Life Encounters: A Critical Look at Current Training Methods,” Ralph Mroz examines the myths and misinformation that plague the gun community. From the five deadly training traps to unrealistic training exercises to concealed-carry mistakes, Mroz offers solutions to help defensive shooters snap out of their routines and become better and safer with their firearms. Mroz, whose articles have appeared in Combat Handguns and Guns magazines, takes a no-nonsense approach to such topics as the need for empty-hands skills, range training vs. real-world training, the problem of range standards, understanding and developing startle recovery, and more.

Ralph Mroz’ second book, “Tactical Defensive Training For Real-Life Encounters: Practical Self-Preservation for Law Enforcement,” is for police officers and civilians alike. It is a compilation of the his articles in Combat Handguns, Tactical Knives and others tackles awareness, empty-hand, edged weapon and firearms training with an emphasis on what pays off and what works on the street.

In 1987, David J. Rutter became a police officer for the Everson Police Department. Later, he joined the Uniontown City Police Department in Pennsylvania. David’s book, “The Hardening of a Cop,” records his personal struggle with the stress of policing. Indeed, he recalled in an interview with the Daily Courier that one night in 2003, “when Rutter returned home from his shift, he walked into the house where his wife and two kids slept, went upstairs, peeled his clothes off, went into a bathroom, pulled a gun out of a safe, threw the gun's clip across the room so only one bullet would be in the chamber, placed the barrel of the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger.” Rutter’s life was spared because the firearm would not discharge without a seated magazine.

Having reached a low point in his life, Rutter began to attend church as a way to find his old self. David J. Rutter donates a majority of the proceeds from his book to the National Police Memorial Fund. His intentions were to help prevent suicide among police officers and help the public understand that underneath a policeman's uniform is a human being.

W.K. Brown, a member of the New York City Transit Police before its merger with the New York Police Department is the author of “Tunnel Vision: Thru the Eyes of a Transit Cop.” According to Brown’s publisher, “for an African-American, the police department seemed to be an enemy; something to be feared not embraced. Brown's decision to join the ranks of New York's finest would be one of the toughest decisions he would ever have to make, a decision he would have to live with for the rest of his life. Tunnel Vision is a journey on the subway of New York thru the eyes of a retired New York City Transit Police Officer. Never again will the everyday routine of commuting on the underground rails be taken for granted. The visions seen and now revealed will make even the most hardened veteran traveler of the subway look at the concrete and cold steel in a different manner. The visions that will be shared can only be seen in the underground beast that is the subway of New York.

Police-Writers.com now lists 108 police authors and their 326 books in six categories.