Police Books

As of December 23, 2007, www.police-writers.com  lists 811 state and local Police Officers from 366 police departments who have written 1722 books.

When we started working on Los Angeles Police Officers who had written books, we realized that many state and local  police officers have shared their talent, experience and knowledge through books.  And, what some amazing stories they have shared! We (several police officers turned writers) kicked around the idea to create a website that hosted books written by police officers - but we had to have rules. 

Being long-time slaves to bureaucracy we developed rules for inclusion:

• The police officer turned author made probation.  At a minimum this is the official bureaucratic measure of being a police officer.
• The police officer had published a book.  We decided that since the 21st Century is here we would include - police officer blogs, police officer websites and police officer magazine articles.  Quite frankly, we found that many police officers have launched interesting post career businesses.  However, we are only going to list book authors by name and devote a webpage(s) to them and their work.  Blogs, Websites and Articles are listed as a category.
• No charge for inclusion and no one gets turned away.  Frankly, we don’t always like what other police officers have written.  Unless its obviously pornographic (we hope not), advocates the over-throw of the government; or, the return of liesure suits - its included.