Archive for the ‘Police Brutality’ Category

There is no dispute that there have been several, violent and unfortunate incidents of police brutality in Denver over the last five years.  In fact, as I have described in many interviews, my first novel, Enemy in Blue, was written only because I came to Denver approximately ten years ago.  Without the incidents here, the [...]

We are facing a situation in Aurora, Colorado where there have been six fatal shootings by police officers in 2011 alone.  Here is an article describing all of the shootings, as well as the locations of the shootings: http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2011/09/six_fatal_shootings_aurora_police_google_maps.php One of my recommendations, which I recently made to the Mayor of Denver and the incoming [...]

Fullerton PD are under fire right now.  http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/16/california.fullerton.police.brutality/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

First book was loosely based on various incidents of police brutality.  I’ve gotten the question a few times, “Do these things actually happen?”  And, even declarations that these incidents don’t happen.  While we could wish the latter were true, it isn’t reality.  I’m consistently tuned into or referred to stories about incidents of police brutality. [...]