Editors Note: Three of the four are former U.S. Military.
With the addition of four new authors, Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, reached 225 state and local police officers who have written books; and, pushed the total number of books written by those officers to 606.
Retired NYPD Captain Tom Walker’s Fort Apache, Bronx, NY was written during the early 1970's. According to one reviewer, “Fort Apache captures in vivid detail what it was like to work in the then busiest and deadliest precinct in New York. Walker describes the neighborhood and the cops who police it with uncanny accuracy. You will ride along with him to shootings, stabbings, muggings, and homicides. Walker captures the frustration and the dedication of the cops assigned to the 41st as they race from call to call in the seemingly endless parade of crime. A must read for those who enjoy true police stories.” Walker followed up years later with “Death of a Bronx Cop,” a true story about survival and love in the face of tragedy by a fourth-generation New York city police officer. In this book, Walker writes: "In the days, months and years to come, more New York City police will die. The official cause of death will be listed as suicide, heart attack, even homicide. In truth, the death certificate should read 'Organizational Murder--N.Y.C.P.D.'"
The author of 7 books, Bob Weir is a New York Police Department sergeant, with over ten years of undercover investigations and over 500 felony arrests to his credit. His first book, “City To Die For” chronicles the attempted takeover of Dallas, Texas by the Mafia in the 1940's. Bob also wrote, “Powers That Be,” a story of government collusion with organized crime, and “Ruthie's Kids,” his account of growing up poor in NYC; as well as three other powerful novels.
B. J. Whalen is a father and son writing team. The son, Bernard Whalen, is a lieutenant in the New York Police Department with more than eighteen years of service. During his career he has worked in New York City's Harlem, East Side, and Chinatown and in the plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit. He has sixteen department recognition awards, including two Commendations, and is a member of the NYPD Honor Legion.
His father, Jon Whalen, retired as a teacher from Manhasset High School on Long Island after thirty years in the classroom. While attending college, he worked as a New York State corrections officer at Sing Sing and Auburn prisons. He served four years in the U.S. Army 3rd Armored Cav. Regt. in Germany. Together, the father and son teamed pen their first novel, “Justifiable Homicide.”
Leo Whittlesey published his first novel entitled, End of Tour. The book is a fast-paced, suspense-filled tale of a New York mob kid, Frank Horan, turned cop who finds himself trapped in a massive corruption scheme and the main suspect in multiple murders. Frank is forced to use his mob connections and street smarts to extricate himself from the morass that his life has become at the hands of gangsters, cops and his own poor judgment. Leo lives in Charlotte, NC with his wife and two sons. He is an attorney and has also been a New York City police officer and small business owner.
While Police-Writers.com hosts 225 police officers (representing over 70 police departments) and their 606 books in six categories, there are also listings of United States federal law enforcement employees turned authors and international police officers who have written books.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Medical Team Examines, Treats Nearly 1,500 African Patients
By By Tech. Sgt. Devin L. Fisher, USAF
Special to American Forces Press Service
Jan. 5, 2007 – U.S. troops in Rwanda and Botswana recently built bridges between the U.S. military and the African people by providing vital medical services to almost 1,500 needy patients. The troops took part in a U.S. European Command Medical Civilian Assistance Program exercise, one of several events that are a part of the U.S. EUCOM's Security Cooperation Division's Humanitarian and Civic Assistance Program. MEDCAPs are designed to provide medical and dental outreach to local civilian populations within the command's 92-nation area of operation.
Air Force Capt. Christie Barton, an optometrist with the 435th Aeromedical Squadron based on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, recalled the gratification she and the other four members of her medical team experienced as they treated 1,469 patients early last month.
In one case, a withdrawn elderly man entered the makeshift optometry clinic tent in Rwanda, hunched over nearly crawling so he could see the ground and avoid any obstacles on his way to the exam chair. But he walked out standing tall with a grin from ear to ear.
"It was like he was a different person," said Barton. She recalled the strong pair of spectacles weren't attractive and barely fit, but "his simple smile said it all."
To this day, Barton said she's still not sure if the patients or the providers gain more from the experience.
The Humanitarian and Civic Assistance Program provides the funding that enables the military medical teams to offer free basic medical and dental care for villagers. U.S. Embassy staffs select the locations and inform the villagers of the event. By interacting with foreign military forces and exposing local civilian populations to positive contacts with U.S. military members, the United States hopes to strengthen counter-terrorism capabilities.
Winning the "hearts and minds" of the locals with these MEDCAPs is part of European Command's ongoing Theater Security Cooperation strategy, officials here explain.
The goal of this MEDCAP was to familiarize the Rwanda and Botswana militaries with the programs, procedures and concepts for managing U.S. military preventive medical practices and deployed medical operations, said Air Force Lt. Col. Vince Gill from the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Surgeon General's Office, who served as the team lead.
The team conducted medical exchange seminars at the Kanombe military hospital in Kigali, Rwanda, inside a tent at the Returnee Camp on the Tanzanian border, and at the Sir Seretse Khama Barracks in Gaborone, Botswana.
The dental topics included expeditionary dentistry, soft tissue injuries, diseases of the mouth, oral hygiene and pediatric dentistry, while optometry topics focused on expeditionary optometry, causes of blindness and eye diseases. Additional seminars discussed medical operations planning, infection control, field sanitation and hygiene, triage, patient evacuation and self aid and buddy care.
"The next step is conducting interoperability clinics with the host-nation medical personnel to demonstrate implementation of the topics covered during the seminars," Gill said. The dental services are limited primarily to exams, extractions, simple surgical procedures, treatment for oral infections and oral hygiene education. Optometry services include exams, treatment for infections and eyeglasses, if required.
"The missions were very productive and valuable for us," Gill said. "We saw many cases of disease typically only seen in books."
(Tech. Sgt. Devin L. Fisher is assigned to U.S. European Command Public Affairs.)
Article sponsored by criminal justice leadership; and personnel from the ranks of the military and police service who have become writers.
Special to American Forces Press Service
Jan. 5, 2007 – U.S. troops in Rwanda and Botswana recently built bridges between the U.S. military and the African people by providing vital medical services to almost 1,500 needy patients. The troops took part in a U.S. European Command Medical Civilian Assistance Program exercise, one of several events that are a part of the U.S. EUCOM's Security Cooperation Division's Humanitarian and Civic Assistance Program. MEDCAPs are designed to provide medical and dental outreach to local civilian populations within the command's 92-nation area of operation.
Air Force Capt. Christie Barton, an optometrist with the 435th Aeromedical Squadron based on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, recalled the gratification she and the other four members of her medical team experienced as they treated 1,469 patients early last month.
In one case, a withdrawn elderly man entered the makeshift optometry clinic tent in Rwanda, hunched over nearly crawling so he could see the ground and avoid any obstacles on his way to the exam chair. But he walked out standing tall with a grin from ear to ear.
"It was like he was a different person," said Barton. She recalled the strong pair of spectacles weren't attractive and barely fit, but "his simple smile said it all."
To this day, Barton said she's still not sure if the patients or the providers gain more from the experience.
The Humanitarian and Civic Assistance Program provides the funding that enables the military medical teams to offer free basic medical and dental care for villagers. U.S. Embassy staffs select the locations and inform the villagers of the event. By interacting with foreign military forces and exposing local civilian populations to positive contacts with U.S. military members, the United States hopes to strengthen counter-terrorism capabilities.
Winning the "hearts and minds" of the locals with these MEDCAPs is part of European Command's ongoing Theater Security Cooperation strategy, officials here explain.
The goal of this MEDCAP was to familiarize the Rwanda and Botswana militaries with the programs, procedures and concepts for managing U.S. military preventive medical practices and deployed medical operations, said Air Force Lt. Col. Vince Gill from the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Surgeon General's Office, who served as the team lead.
The team conducted medical exchange seminars at the Kanombe military hospital in Kigali, Rwanda, inside a tent at the Returnee Camp on the Tanzanian border, and at the Sir Seretse Khama Barracks in Gaborone, Botswana.
The dental topics included expeditionary dentistry, soft tissue injuries, diseases of the mouth, oral hygiene and pediatric dentistry, while optometry topics focused on expeditionary optometry, causes of blindness and eye diseases. Additional seminars discussed medical operations planning, infection control, field sanitation and hygiene, triage, patient evacuation and self aid and buddy care.
"The next step is conducting interoperability clinics with the host-nation medical personnel to demonstrate implementation of the topics covered during the seminars," Gill said. The dental services are limited primarily to exams, extractions, simple surgical procedures, treatment for oral infections and oral hygiene education. Optometry services include exams, treatment for infections and eyeglasses, if required.
"The missions were very productive and valuable for us," Gill said. "We saw many cases of disease typically only seen in books."
(Tech. Sgt. Devin L. Fisher is assigned to U.S. European Command Public Affairs.)
Article sponsored by criminal justice leadership; and personnel from the ranks of the military and police service who have become writers.
Bush Names Retired Admiral as Director of National Intelligence
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
Jan. 5, 2007 – President Bush today named retired Navy Vice Adm. J. Michael McConnell as the director of national intelligence to succeed John Negroponte. Bush also nominated Negroponte, who has held the post for almost two years, to become deputy secretary of the State Department.
McConnell will bring solid "experience, intellect and character" to the DNI position, Bush said. He cited McConnell's service as director of the National Security Agency from 1992 to 1996 and as the chief intelligence advisor to Gen. Colin Powell, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during Operation Desert Storm.
"Admiral McConnell has decades of experience ensuring that our military forces had the intelligence they need to fight and win wars," the president said. He also noted McConnell's proven ability to work with Congress and the White House.
Bush said this experience will be critical for the important position he has called on McConnell to fill. As DNI, he will be responsible for determining the national intelligence budget, overseeing the collection and analysis of intelligence information, ensuring that intelligence agencies share information with each other and creating common standards for intelligence community personnel.
Negroponte, a career federal service officer returning to the State Department, praised the state of U.S. intelligence and said he's confident McConnell will continue building on improvements already under way. The U.S. intelligence community "has embraced the challenge of functioning as a single, unified enterprise, and reaffirmed the fact that it is the best intelligence community in the world -- second to none," Negroponte said.
McConnell said he's honored for the opportunity to lead the intelligence community and recognizes the importance of providing "the right information to the right decision maker in the right time and format."
"Unlike just a decade ago, the threats of today and the future are moving at increasing speeds and across organizational and geographic boundaries," he said. "This will require increased coordinated responsiveness by our community of intelligence professionals."
McConnell said he hopes to continue improving processes "to provide the needed information for tactical, operational and strategic decision making."
The president praised Negroponte for his service as the nation's first DNI and the first U.S. ambassador to a free Iraq and called him "a superb choice" for the No. 2 State Department post.
"I'm confident the United States Senate will also see the value of these two serving in crucial positions, and I would hope that they would be confirmed as quickly as possible," Bush said.
Article sponsored by criminal justice leadership; and personnel from the ranks of the military and police service who have become writers.
American Forces Press Service
Jan. 5, 2007 – President Bush today named retired Navy Vice Adm. J. Michael McConnell as the director of national intelligence to succeed John Negroponte. Bush also nominated Negroponte, who has held the post for almost two years, to become deputy secretary of the State Department.
McConnell will bring solid "experience, intellect and character" to the DNI position, Bush said. He cited McConnell's service as director of the National Security Agency from 1992 to 1996 and as the chief intelligence advisor to Gen. Colin Powell, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during Operation Desert Storm.
"Admiral McConnell has decades of experience ensuring that our military forces had the intelligence they need to fight and win wars," the president said. He also noted McConnell's proven ability to work with Congress and the White House.
Bush said this experience will be critical for the important position he has called on McConnell to fill. As DNI, he will be responsible for determining the national intelligence budget, overseeing the collection and analysis of intelligence information, ensuring that intelligence agencies share information with each other and creating common standards for intelligence community personnel.
Negroponte, a career federal service officer returning to the State Department, praised the state of U.S. intelligence and said he's confident McConnell will continue building on improvements already under way. The U.S. intelligence community "has embraced the challenge of functioning as a single, unified enterprise, and reaffirmed the fact that it is the best intelligence community in the world -- second to none," Negroponte said.
McConnell said he's honored for the opportunity to lead the intelligence community and recognizes the importance of providing "the right information to the right decision maker in the right time and format."
"Unlike just a decade ago, the threats of today and the future are moving at increasing speeds and across organizational and geographic boundaries," he said. "This will require increased coordinated responsiveness by our community of intelligence professionals."
McConnell said he hopes to continue improving processes "to provide the needed information for tactical, operational and strategic decision making."
The president praised Negroponte for his service as the nation's first DNI and the first U.S. ambassador to a free Iraq and called him "a superb choice" for the No. 2 State Department post.
"I'm confident the United States Senate will also see the value of these two serving in crucial positions, and I would hope that they would be confirmed as quickly as possible," Bush said.
Article sponsored by criminal justice leadership; and personnel from the ranks of the military and police service who have become writers.
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