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Howdunit Police Procedure & Investigation: A Guide for Writers
Howdunit Police Procedure & Investigation: A Guide for Writers | Lee Lofland
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Not everything you see on your favorite crime show is accurate. In fact, a lot of it is flat out wrong. Police Procedure & Investigation helps you get your facts straight about the inner workings of law enforcement.With a career in law enforcement that spanned nearly two decades, author Lee Lofland is a nationally acclaimed expert on police procedures and crime scene investigations who consults regularly with best-selling authors and television producers. Now you can benefit from his years of experience with Police Procedure & Investigation.This comprehensive resource includes: More than 80 photographs, illustrations, and charts showing everything from defensive moves used by officers to prison cells and autopsiesDetailed information on officer training, tools of the trade, drug busts, con air procedures, crime scene investigation techniques, and moreFirst-person details from the author about his experiences as a detective, including accounts of arrests, death penalty executions, and criminal encountersPolice Procedure & Investigation is the next best thing to having a police detective personally assigned to your book!
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I bought this how-to for writers to prepare myself for plotting a procedural mystery. After reading this and interviewing the representative police department for my story, I do feel much more confident that I am capable of realism as far as police are concerned. This said, the latest edition is 10 years old, and so all references to technology may or may not be outdated. The book has some great anecdotes but too few, resulting in a textbook feel.

RaimeyGallant To clarify, I would have given this book a pick if there was a newer edition. 7y
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