Old Mob, New Mob

Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to listing state and local police officers who have authored books on the mafia, drug cartels and police corruption.

During the early 1960s, Raymond V. Martin was an Assistant Chief Inspector of the Brooklyn South Detective Squad of the New York Police Department. His book, Revolt in the Mafia, is the story of his battles with the Gallo crime family. Perhaps most interesting, many of the real names he recounts, find their way into Mario Puzo’s mafia classic – The Godfather. In addition to names, places and incidents, Martin describes his strategies and tactics for his battle against the mob.

Jerry Speziale is a police officer who has attended three police academies and is a certified police officer in three states: New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Jerry Speziale first served fifteen years with the New York Police Department where he worked in the South Bronx, Organized Crime Control Bureau and Federal Drug Enforcement Task Force. After leaving NYPD, he has been the Chief of Department with the Bergen County Sheriff's Department and the Chief of Police in New Hope Pennsylvania. As of 2007, he is the Passaic County Sheriff’s Department, Sheriff.

Sheriff Jerry Speziale’s book is Without A Badge: Undercover in the World's Deadliest Criminal Organization. According to Publishers Weekly (2003), “An original member of the DEA's legendary Group 93, which was founded in 1990 to target the drug cartels based in Cali, Colombia, Speziale has an amazing life story to tell, and in a breathless narrative, he nails the high points of his 20-year-long career. From his troubled youth in New Jersey through his incarnation as the suave "Geraldo Bartone" to infiltrate the Cali gangs, to a final bout with career burnout, Speziale provides a detailed insider look at the tough life of undercover cops and the relentless pressure of a job in which the "only way to bust the cartel is to become part of it.”

Patrick Murphy's experience includes 25 years as a New York Police Department police officer. He was appointed Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) by Mayor John Lindsay in 1970. He has also headed the police departments in Syracuse, NY, Washington, D.C., and Detroit. Patrick Murphy wrote Commissioner.

Police-Writers.com now hosts 370 police officers (representing 155 police departments) and their 813 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.