Description: 500 BRAND NEW BOOKS AVAILABLE. AUTHOR WILL PERSONALLY SIGN EACH BOOK. The experience and trials I faced as a young cop in Los Angeles during the 60's and 70's at the notorious Los Angeles County Firestone Sheriff's Station led me to write this book. It is a novel based on the historical era and times, and it is the reader's prerogative to determine if this could happen anywhere at anytime.This story is a hard, realistic, intense and sometimes sadly humorous look at street cops and the inside politics of the largest sheriff's department in the world. It follows an idealistic young deputy as he struggles with those politics and simultaneously battles what he perceives to be his own inability to use the lethal force that would gain him entrance into the elite group some referred to as a "gang".Latest update: Several past investigations by the county's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) have identified 19 gangs within the sheriff's department over the years — which have been tied to at least 59 legal claims going back to the early 1990s that have resulted in more than $54 million in settlement payouts for incidents tied to these alleged crime groups. My objective was to depict how power of deputy gangs, control and money play an important part in major law enforcement departments, regardless of the idealistic virtues taught in academy courses. I wanted also to show how all-powerful "information" is used and misused to gain rank, wield power and sometimes destroy lives.As the author, I will personally sign the book for you and provide any comments you request. 500 brand new books available!!!
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Book Title: Firestone Syndrome
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: A Cappela Publishing
Topic: Political
Publication Year: 2002
Item Height: 0 in
Genre: Fiction
Author: Stephen P. Beeler
Item Length: 0.4 in
Item Width: 0.2 in
Format: Hardcover
