California Police Books

Police-Writers.com is a website that lists state and local police officers who have written books. Police-Writers.com added three police officers from California who have written books.

Sergeant Rex Fowler is a 19 year veteran with the El Segundo Police Department (California). Rex Fowler is the author of A Frangible Quest. According to the book description, “Banister was a man who knew what he wanted: College, a coveted spot as a Marine Corps pilot, and a comfortable future in commercial aviation. His future was set, until fate intervenes. Mike Daniels, a veteran police Lieutenant and family friend, sees the potential in Banister and recruits him away from the Marine Corps for a career in law enforcement. A lifelong bond forms as Banister adapts to new opportunities in his life. A young man’s quest for significance in career and life is always frangible and subject to the unexpected whims of fate for himself and his friends.”

Bruce Tognetti is the retired as the chief of police of the Colma Police Department (California). He is the author of A Strategy for Addressing Illegal Youth Gang Activities by a Mid-size Police Department.

Captain Robert M. Shusta (ret.), MPA, served over twenty-seven years in law enforcement, and retired as a Captain at the Concord Police Department (California). He has been a part-time instructor at numerous colleges and universities in northern California and at police academies. He is a graduate of the 158th FBI National Academy and the 4th California Command College conducted by the California Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (POST). He served on state commissions responsible for developing and recommending to POST guidelines, policy and training on cultural awareness and crimes motivated by hate.

Robert Shusta is the co-author of Multicultural Law Enforcement: Strategies for Peacekeeping in a Diverse Society. According to the book description of Multicultural Law Enforcement: Strategies for Peacekeeping in a Diverse Society, “From a diverse team of writers whose expertise spans law enforcement and cross-cultural relations, comes a book with comprehensive coverage of sensitive topics and issues related to diversity and multiculturalism facing police today and in the 21st century. It contains insightful as well as practical information and guidelines on how law enforcement professionals can work effectively with diverse cultural groups, both inside their organizations as well as in the community. Focusing on the cross-cultural and racial contact that police officers and civilian employees have with citizens, victims, suspects, and co-workers from diverse backgrounds, this book contains information on racial profiling, hate crimes, community-based policing, undocumented immigrants and immigrant women, urban dynamics, and gays and lesbians in law enforcement. For law enforcement managers, supervisors, officers, and instructors”

Police-Writers.com now hosts 729 police officers (representing 338 police departments) and their 1559 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.