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.