Lieutenant Raymond E. Foster, LAPD (ret.) MBA, is the CEO of Criminal Justice Online, and he is the author of Police Technology (Prentice Hall, July 2004).  During his twenty-four years with the Los Angeles Police Department he worked ten geographic areas; including Newton, 77th and Southwest Areas. In addition to patrol, Lieutenant Foster worked specialized assignments such as communications, traffic, community relations and fugitives. Raymond has a BA in Criminal Justice Management, a Masters in Public Finance and is currently finishing his doctoral studies.

 

Raymond's current major project is co-authoring the upcoming book, Homeland Security and the New Threats of Global Terrorism: From Cold War to Flaming-Hot War (Prentice Hall, February 2007) with Major General Dror Itzhaki, Israeli Security Agency (ret), a senior Israeli expert on security, protection, operations and prevention of criminal and terror acts, and Dr. Reuven Paz, Ph.D., an Israeli expert on militant and radical Islam and Islamist movements. Additionally, he is in contract negotiations on a third book - An Introduction to Policing.

 

About the Book:  Police TechnologyFor Computers in Criminal Justice, Police Technology, Introductory Cybercrime and Introductory Crime Analysis courses as well as courses in Management of Public Information Systems.The only book of its kind available today, Police Technology is an up-to-date, practical examination of information technology in law enforcement. Through the lens of common criminal justice themes such as community policing, fragmentation, and other criminological theories, it tackles the broad field of information technology systematically - it starts with a basic introduction to computers, explores police communications technology, and presents cutting-edge strategic and tactical technology used by police to predict, investigate and prevent crime.

 

Reviews

 

"Police Technology offers, hands-down, the most thorough, up-to-date, state-of-the-art coverage of current and emerging technologies." — Samuel Nunn, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

 

"Police Technology "is truly a one-stop-shop technology overview, whether the student is a basic police recruit; a midlevel manager who now realizes he or she must be `up' on ail this or become irrelevant; or, a chief or sheriff who aspires to truly understand his or her agency's technology plan and how to successfully manage it to reach important departmental and community goals." — Dave Pettinari, Pueblo County (Colorado) Sheriff's Office

 

"Police Technology reflects a great deal of research and insight into the combined areas of Information Technology and Law Enforcement Management of Technology." — Wayne Eveland (Captain, New Jersey State Police, Retired), Director Of Technical Marketing, Motorola"Police Technology "is well-researched, well-written, welt-referenced, and provides exceptionally clear and appropriate examples." — William L. Tafoya, University Of New Haven

August 27, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added its 93rd police author, Will Beall.  Beall has been a police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department for over eight years.  He is currently assigned to the 77^th Division.  His assignments have included patrol and the anti-gang unit, and recently he began working homicide.

 

When asked about why he started writing, Beall said, “I've always been a compulsive scribbler, writing everything down that I see and feel. If I had more artistic talent, maybe I would sketch things. I've been doing this forever, since long before I came onto the job. But when I made the decision to become a cop, I actually decided that I had to put that behind me. My first week on the job, every night when I came home from work, I would just talk to my girlfriend at the time, until two in the morning, about everything that happened all day. So, within a week of working in 77th, I realized I needed to write about this. And I started filling up notebooks and legal pads. I don't remember exactly when I decided to write the book, but somewhere along the line I had this idea of doing a story about this kid who was just starting out.”

 

In Beall’s debut novel, L.A. Rex, “As far as everyone in the squad room knows, Ben Halloran is completely fresh to the streets of the 77th Division, a soft kid from the West Side who's decided to become a cop and just happened to draw the hardest neighborhood in L.A. But demons from Ben's complicated past catch up with him-and his tough, oddly principled Daryl Gates-era partner, Miguel Marquez-all too quickly. From the moment Ben and Marquez hit the streets together, they're pulled into a web of ultra-violent corruption and retribution involving hardcore Crip gangbangers and tagalong gangsta-rap gloryhounds, L.A.'s Mexican Mafia, sleazy celebrity defense attorneys, and dirty cops with distinctly self-serving definitions of law enforcement. Ben is forced to choose among father figures and apparent destinies-trying to obey (and discover) his own moral principles as well as his desperate animal instinct simply to stay alive.”

 

Police-Writers.com now lists 93 police authors and their 250 books in six categories.

Global Terrorism,” author and lecturer Raymond E. Foster realized he was amassing a tremendous amount of research.  Traditional academic research, open source information In June 2006, as he was researching book “From Cold War to Hot War: The New War on from the Department of Defense daily briefings, data from the National Counterterrorism Center and a host of daily, weekly and monthly news digests provided enough information to found a comprehensive blog on the War on Terrorism.

 

The blog includes original works like “Terrorism: Crime or Asymmetrical Warfare;” an effort to define terrorism in the context of American criminal justice.  Other original works, like the analysis of world-wide attacks on police officers provide important data, information and analysis for the development of “street” counterterrorism tactics.  Indeed, that blog entry has been published by a number of American municipal police departments; and, translated by two foreign governments for use by their uniformed police officers.

 

In addition to monitoring domestic conditions and events, the blog has many entries detailing events overseas, specifically in the Middle East.  While the blog reports on events, it also reflects many of the human experiences of American’s fighting terrorism abroad.  For instance, in a recent entry, an Air Force Technical Sergeant describes how he was eating lunch in the break room when he felt as if he had been slugged in the arm and was enveloped in a cloud of smoke. At first, he thought the television exploded. In reality, a rocket sliced through the back of his left shoulder and peppered his hands and arms with metal shards. There was only one thing going through his mind at the time: "Survival! I just wanted to make it out alive," he said.

 

According to Sun Tzu, in “The Art of War, "Thus it is said that one who knows the enemy and knows himself will not be endangered in a hundred engagements."  Mindful of the need to know ones self and the enemy, the blog contains hyperlinks to important documents such as the “Al Qaeda Training Manual” and “The United States Military Guide to Terrorism in the 21^st Century.”  Updated daily, the blog can be read at http://terrorism-online.blogspot.com/

August 18, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added new categories of police authors.  In response to reader requests, Police-Writers.com has begun research into international police officers.  According to Raymond E. Foster, CEO of Hi Tech Criminal Justice, “The main idea of the website remains the same – collecting and listing state and local police officers who have written books, but we have added a separate category listing other law enforcement officials.”  Peter Walker, an English bobby, is the most recent addition to the list of international police writers.

 

"Nicolas Rhea" is only one of the six pseudonyms under which Peter Walker has written roughly 130 books in the last 40 years. This amazing career is rooted in the application of his own experience - whether it is from being a village bobby, a Yorkshire villager, a police press officer or a father of four.

 

Nicholas Rhea was born the son of an insurance agent and a teacher in 1936 in the North York Moors village of Glaisdale. The oldest of three children, he won a scholarship to Whitby Grammar School but left at 16 to become a police cadet. In 1956, he joined the North Yorkshire force as a beat bobby in Whitby. He also began to write seriously after years of casual interest, having his first short story published in the Police Review.

 

Three years later he moved to the region's Police Headquarters at Northallerton before being posted to Oswaldkirk, about 20 miles north of York, as the village bobby in 1964. He then became an instructor at the police training school in 1967, the same year as his first novel, Carnaby and the Hijackers, was published. He was promoted to sergeant in 1968 and inspector in 1976, when he was also appointed Press and Public Relations Officer.

 

He retired in 1982 after 30 years' service to concentrate on his writing, encouraged by an interest in his Constable books from Yorkshire Television. Now in his late 60s, Nicholas Rhea still writes full-time. He has four children and seven grandchildren, and lives with his wife in a quiet North Yorkshire village.

 

In addition to the international listings, Police-Writers.com now lists 91 American municipal police authors and their 243 books in six categories.

 

 

 

 

 

Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added new categories of police authors.  In response to reader requests, Police-Writers.com has begun research into federal and international police officers.  According to Raymond E. Foster, CEO of Hi Tech Criminal Justice, “The main idea of the website remains the same – collecting and listing state and local police officers who have written books, but we have added a separate category listing other law enforcement officials.”  The first two additions are Lee Morgan, a retired federal agent and Joan Lock a former London policewoman.

 

Lee Morgan II Spent 31 years as a federal agent with the Department of Justice, Department of Treasury, and the Department of Homeland Security.  Morgan’s lifetime achievements range from receiving a Bronze Star and a Purple Hear for his Vietnam duty, to a dozen honors bestowed upon him by the U.S. Government for his achievements as a law enforcement official.

 

When he was 14, Lee Morgan learned to shoot a rifle from a young Marine who later became the "Texas Tower Sniper." Four years later, Lee was conducting CIA assassination missions in Vietnam. Then he spent the next 31 years on the U.S.-Mexico border as a federal law enforcement officer, where the struggle against smugglers of drugs and starving human beings is as harrowing as anything Lee encountered in Vietnam.

 

The Reaper’s Line is a non-fiction account of unparalleled official corruption, mass murders, gunfights, treason, betrayal, and government wrongdoing. It is Morgan’s true story of violence, drugs, human smuggling, and dirty politicians along the Mexican/American border.

 

During Joan Lock’s six years with the Metropolitan Police in London, England, she was assigned to West End Central, a beat which covers Mayfair and Soho. There she met and married fellow police officer Bob Lock.  Despite the glamour of film premières and ceremonial occasions, and the compliment of being asked to pose as a prostitute, became bored by the limits of the job for women at that time.  After leaving the job, Joan would ultimately author of eight non-fiction police/crime books, such as Dreadful Deeds and Awful Murders: Scotland Yard’s First Detectives and Blue Murder? Policemen Under Suspicion.  Joan Lock is an authority of the history of British women in policing and has written and lectured extensively on that subject.

 

In addition to federal law enforcement officer and international listings, Police-Writers.com now lists 91 municipal police authors and their 243 books in six categories.

August 15, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added its 91st police author, Dave Case.  Dave is a 19 year veteran of the Chicago Police Department.  Dave entered the academy in 1985 and afterwards was assigned to uniformed patrol in the 007^th District-Englewood.  In 1990, Dave transferred to the 018^th district which is located in the heart of Carbini Green.

 

Cabrini-Green is a public housing development on Chicago's North Side.  At its height, Cabrini-Green was home to 20,000 people, living in mid and high-rise apartment buildings. Gang violence and the city's neglect created terrible conditions for the residents, and the name "Cabrini-Green" became symbolic of the problems associated with public housing across the nation. As of 2005, only about 5000 residents remain. Several of the buildings have been razed and the whole neighborhood is being redeveloped into a combination of high-rise buildings and row houses.

 

After a short career break wherein Dave went to work for the St. Paul Police Department, he returned to Chicago and was ultimately assigned to their Special Operations Section.  During his tour with the Special Operations Section Dave worked on the Chicago Police Department’s Hostage, Barricade and Terrorist Team which is the Chicago Police Department version of SWAT.  After his promotion to sergeant, Dave has worked patrol, the Special Operations Section and now the Education and Training Division.

 

Dave’s debut novel, Out of Cabrini, has been described as a “fargo-esque” blend of comedy and tragedy.   According to Connie Fletcher, of the American Library Association, “Case pulls out a wealth of knowledge about Chicago street-gang members, juxtaposing their street smarts against the "rent-a-victim" innocence of suburbanites The plot offers a wild ride centered on a gangbanger's car, a Lexus GS300, impounded with a four-kilo fortune in drugs inside, picked up in an illegal sale by a wealthy businessman, who presents it to his mistress. The street gang is desperate to find the car, terrorizing and murdering as they search, while hero Stacy Macbeth of the Eighteenth District Tactical Team coordinates the cop chase. Case fills the plot with the kind of funny, exuberant, outrageous details only a longtime cop could know.”

 

 Police-Writers.com now lists 91 police authors and their 243 books in six categories.

When I published my book of the same title, Becoming a Police Officer: An Insider's Guide to a Career in Law Enforcement, I really had no idea just how many young people are contemplating a career in law enforcement.  As time goes by, I hope this blog will become a valuable resource for those of you considering a police career.