title: The Police in America: Classic and Contemporary Readings (The Wadsworth Professionalism in Policing Series)
author: Steven G. Brandl
description: Steven G. Brandl is an Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research interests include police decision-making and behavior, police use of force, the relationship between the police and the community, criminal investigation, and program evaluation. Brandl has conducted numerous research projects with several major metropolitan police departments. He is the author of numerous articles in professional journals and co-editor of VOICES FROM THE FIELD: READINGS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESEARCH (Pope/Lovell/Brandl, Wadsworth 2001).
zlib_text: DIRTY
  
  by
  
  Robert White
  
  The characters contained in this book are fictional and any similarity to
  persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
  
  All Rights Reserved under the Copyright Act 1976
  
  Acknowledgements
  
  Firstly, I must point out that this book is in no way auto-biographical.
  
  Although like the main protagonist here, I did patrol the streets of Preston
  in 1981 and continued to do so for fifteen years, I was fortunate enough never
  to encounter Police Officers or Lawyers like some depicted in these pages.
  
  Indeed, my experiences were the total opposite. I was fortunate enough to work
  alongside some of the bravest men and women I have ever met.
  
  Yes, Police Officers are human and suffer the same failings as all reading
  this, but I am proud to say I found the vast majority of officers to show
  great integrity and compassion in their daily lives.
  
  The early 1980’s cast a dark shadow over the North of England and people
  turned to crime for any number of reasons. Therefore, I would 