Known to the mundane world as Detective Constable Charles A. Ennis, a former child abuse investigator for the Vancouver (British Columbia) Police Department and author of several articles on child abuse investigation that appeared in Law & Order Magazine, he is better known to the Pagan community by his Wiccan name, Kerr Cuhulain.  Ennis was the first Wiccan police officer to go public about his beliefs 28 years ago. Kerr is now the Preceptor General of Officers of Avalon.  Kerr went on to write four books: “The Law Enforcement Guide to Wicca,” “Wiccan Warrior,”  “Full Contact Magick” and “Witch Hunts: Out of the Broom Closet.”

Police-Writers.com now lists 121 police officers and their 369 books in six categories.

September 2, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added its 100th police author, Frank Desario (Boston Police Department), Donovan Jacobs (San Diego Police Department) and Samuel Clark (San Diego Police Department.

Frank DeSario, in his book, “Badge #1 - Memoirs of a Boston Cop,” shares his almost forty year career in a vivid account of his experiences with the Boston Police Department. The Mafia, the gangland slayings, the Combat Zone, bussing and the resulting racial issues and riots, the thugs and the corruption are all discussed with a first hand look at the events. Frank also shares the glamorous side of his job which included escorting high profile celebrities, religious leaders and political leaders during their visits to the Boston area. The photos are vivid but give the reader a close look at what it was like to be a cop in Boston during the last four decades.

According to one reader, Michael j. Horne, Frank DeSario’s book is a”fantastic account from a first hand perspective of what it is like to patrol the streets during the past 4 decades. Frank DeSario is a local hero and all should have the pleasure of reading the memoirs of his illustrious career.”

Donovan Jacobs, a retired San Diego police officer takes the reader to the frontline on crime in San Diego in, “Street Cop: Innovative Tactics For Taking Back The Streets.” According to Jacobs’ book, “The patrol officer fighting crime on the battlefield of today's city streets must be relentless in the pursuit of criminals, maximizing his time on beat to focus on the source of pain and hurt in society - the career criminal, from the ex-con to the gang member to the junkie.”  Jacobs, a police officer who has endured the worst of what the streets have to offer, goes beyond what is taught in the academy or in officer's training. Donovan Jacobs condenses years of experience and presents officers with innovative, proactive tactics for apprehending gangsters, auto thieves, junkies, convicts, fleeing suspects, and other criminals.

Samuel Clark was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Samuel Clark joined the Newark Police Department on November 20, 1972.  During his 25 years with the police department, Clark has worked as a police officer in the patrol division, a detective assigned to the juvenile bureau and has variety of investigations ranging from harassment to homicide.  He was promoted to the rank of sergeant in 1994 and to lieutenant in 1997.

Samuel Clark’s book, “Total Misconduct”, presents a detailed account of corruption and official misconduct within the Newark Police D. To some, the shocking events described in this book may appear to be exaggerated. Unfortunately, they are not. Clark worked with a handful of brave police officers to expose the existence of wide spread police corruption in the Newark Police Department. These officers presented documentary evidence of serious police corruption to local and state politicians, a county prosecutor, the State Attorney General, the U.S. Attorney General, and the FBI.

Clark’s book asks, “Why did elected officials and government law enforcement agencies ignore the evidence and the complaints of serious police corruption from over 26 credible and reliable police officers?”  Samuel Clark presents facts, official police documents and report numbers, court transcript excerpts and case numbers, and newspaper accounts, enabling the reader to make his/her own conclusions.

Police-Writers.com now lists 103 police authors and their 316 books in six categories.

September 2, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added its 100th police author, Richard Rosenthal.  Richard is the Chief of Police the Wellfleet Police Department, Massachusetts, a town located halfway between the "tip" and "elbow" of Cape Cod. 

Before becoming Chief of Police in Wellfleet, Chief Rosenthal spent twenty years in the New York Police Department, where he ran the Heavy Weapons and Undercover Weapons Training programs and, as a detective in the Bronx dealt with homicide, narcotics, and armed robbery. Before joining the NYPD, he worked for U.S. Air Force military intelligence as a Russian language specialist.  In addition to being the chief of police, he is the author of four books.  His latest book, published in 2000, is titled “Rookie Cop: Deep Undercover in the Jewish Defense League.”

According to Kirkus reviews, it is "a strange true tale of a Jewish NYPD cadet recruited into the department's elite intelligence unit to spy on the Jewish Defense League, offering vivid portraits of a politically incendiary era and revealing secrets of intrusive police tactics.  This is a well-tuned portrait of the stress and acrimony that permeates such radical cliques, and of the lonely, paranoid personalities at their centers - and it offers insights into the radically charged violence of the early 1970s. Rosenthal has a fine eye for human detail and a cop's mordant sensibility. Altogether an exciting tale of unusual police practices, and a solid portrait of a quintessential fringe radical group inhabiting insecure, volatile times.”

His other works include two books on policing, “Sky Cops: Stories from America’s Airborne Police” and “K-9 Cops;” and, one novel – “The Murder of Old Comrades.” According to the Wall Street Journal, his novel is "a spicy police procedural about KGB assassins on the loose in Manhattan.” 

Police-Writers.com now lists 100 police authors and their 313 books in six categories.  Police officers have written a wide range of books.  Some are widely used by universities and colleges to teach in criminal justice, law enforcement, police technology and leadership.  Other police authors have concentrate on the police procedural genre in novels, adding realism that readers won’t find elsewhere.  Still other give readers a police officers insight into true crime and life on the beat.  But there are also books on poetry – if the author was a police officer you will find it on Police-Writers.com.

September 2, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added its 99th police author, John Hogan.  John grew up in small town in Burlington Country, New Jersey with a single goal – to become a trooper with the New Jersey State Police.  As one reader of Hogan’s work remarked, “it took John years to become a trooper and seconds to lose his job.”

John Hogan joined the New Jersey State Police in 1993 as a member of the 113^th recruit class.  Seven years later, as he patrolled the infamous New Jersey State turnpike he would find himself in the center of a controversial shooting.  Hogan observed that he “was immediately labeled a racist and cast as the poster boy for racial profiling throughout the country.”  John Hogan’s book, “Turnpike Trooper: Racial Profiling & the New Jersey State Police,” is his personal account of the five years following the shooting.

A recent reader of the book remarked, “Trooper Hogan gives an inside look into the New Jersey State Police and the circus-like atmosphere that erupted following the shooting which occurred in the midst of allegations of racial profiling. None of us can know exactly what went down that fateful night, but there is no question that Troopers Hogan and Kenna became pawns in a political dance and power struggle between the Governor and State Attorney General.”

You will have to read for yourself and decide if the troopers violated policy and should have been disciplined; and, did the State of New Jersey unnecessarily try Hogan and his partner for attempted murder.

Police-Writers.com now lists 99 police authors and their 309 books in six categories.

September 2, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added its 98th police author, Robert Leuci.  Leuci joined the New York Police Department in 1961.  Readers are likely familiar with some of the story of Leuci’s career because part of it was told in the best-selling book and movie “Prince of the City.”  As a narcotics detective, Leuci worked undercover for prosecutors investigating police corruption in the 1970s New York Police Department.

Robert Leuci retired from the New York Police Department in 1981.  He began a second career as a writer, lecturer and teacher.  Leuci is frequently called upon to lecture at universities, law schools and police academies on police corruption.  In addition to his writing, he is an adjunct professor of English and Political Science at the University of Rhode Island.

In his most recent book, “All Thee Centurions: A New York City Cop Remembers His Years on the Street, 1961-1981,” Leuci fleshes out the details of his role in “Prince of City.”  On reviewer rather harshly noted that Leuci “traces in detail the incremental steps that turned him from a naïve and idealistic beat cop into an arrogant dirty one, who easily rationalized ripping off drug dealers and playing along with rampant graft. To his credit, Leuci doesn't sugarcoat or paper over his lies, his betrayal of the public and his family, or pretend that he was unaware at the time that what he was doing was wrong. These flaws make him a classic tragic figure, especially when he begins to make a belated effort to redeem himself by cooperating with the Knapp Commission.”  A second reviewer was somewhat kinder when he commented Robert Leuci’s newest novel was “as vivid and entertaining as the best crime novels, All the Centurions is the story of a man descending into a hell of his own making who ultimately finds his way out through truth and justice.”

In addition to “All Thee Centurions: A New York City Cop Remembers His Years on the Street, 1961-1981,” Robert Leuci has authored for fictional crime novels, Blaze, Snitch, Fence Jumpers and Renegades.

Police-Writers.com now lists 98 police authors and their 308 books in six categories.

September 1, 2006 (San Dimas, CA) Police-Writers.com, a website dedicated to police officers turned authors, has added its 96th police author, Dr. Wayne Ford.  Dr. Ford is a former Oakland Police Department officer.  After his 3-year enlistment in the United States Army he joined the Concord Police Department (California), in 1967.  He stayed at Concord for seven months before joining the Oakland Police Department (California).  During his seventeen years in law enforcement he would serve as a police officer, training officer, sergeant and investigator.

Dr. Wayne Ford’s experiences in law enforcement and his education are the genesis of his writings.  For instance, as a police officer he was involved in a number of stressful incidents such as a lethal-force confrontation with a shotgun wielding suspect.  Wayne prevailed in that confrontation, killing the suspect. Later, in 1975, Dr. Wayne Ford had a heart attack while on-duty.

In addition to his writing, his post-policing career has included teaching and lecturing at the university level and his work with The Management Advantage, Inc., a consulting firm where he is a vice president. Ford’s writings have concentrated business and organizational management and leadership; and, stress management.  His book on Managing Police Stress, teaches police professionals how to deal with the stress of gun battles, high-speed pursuits, confrontations, riots, and other disasters. According to the book, personal health and job effectiveness are at risk if these stresses are not properly managed. The book contains an explanation of the eight unique combinations of stress felt by every law enforcement officer, and how to effectively cope.

While Ford’s solid writing on management issues is his hallmark, his most recent work, Soldier of the City, is an autobiographical account of policing in Oakland, California during the 1970s. In November 2004, The Northern Peace Officer (A Publication of the Alaska Peace Officers Association), reviewed Ford’s Soldier of the City, saying, “Return with Oakland Police Sergeant Wayne Ford to a time in Oakland, California, when crime was rampant, the public was afraid, and the police stood in between. Experience episodes of humor, tragedy, and courage told in a forthright and entertaining style.”

Police-Writers.com now lists 96 police authors and their 301 books in six categories.