Firestone Syndrome

Beeler, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0970657641 / ISBN 13: 9780970657640

Published by Stephen Beeler, 2002

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Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Firestone Syndrome
• Publisher: Stephen Beeler
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970657641
• ISBN 13: 9780970657640
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

About this title

Synopsis

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 an 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 "in" group.

My objective was to depict how power, 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.

About the Author

Stephen P. Beeler, an L.A. Sheriff for 21 years, retired from the Sheriff's Department in 1986 as a lieutenant and is now Director of Security for a golf club and community in Arizona. He also does private consulting on Security, Hostage Survival and Emergency Police Procedures, and is an Expert Witness in Federal Court in Emergency Police Procedures and Hostage Negotiations. He has an M.A. in Communications and holds teaching credentials in both California and Arizona.