For the Love of Police
Police
officers and departments are especially hot topics right now, whether it be in
regards to police brutality or the use of excessive force. It seems there is a
clear line between people who respect them and people who despise them. But how
does that choice come to be?
We all
make decisions based on information that comes our way, but what if everything
we read in the media about police taking harsh action isn’t correct? What if
these articles are missing key intel? Unless we were in an officer’s shoes, how
can we really know what transpired?
All of
us have played—or at least are familiar with—the telephone game. In this, it’s
easy to see how a message changes as it moves down the line. The same, too, I
would suspect, is the case when it comes to reporting. But that’s only one way
that information can get garbled, making it uncertain and difficult to claim as
truth. Reports are also often colored by the viewpoint of a source. If that
source is prejudiced against the police, it will immediately taint his or her
reaction to a situation; before knowing any facts, the police will be cast in
an unfavorable light.
I’m not
saying that police always make the right decisions; they are human, after all.
There are even some corrupt cops. However, I feel that people need to
appreciate that unless they are there, in the moment, there’s no way of truly
knowing why a certain course of action was taken.
As a
result of my own respect for law enforcement, I have dedicated In the Line of Duty to all the fine men
and women who serve or have served, and in memory of those who have made the
ultimate sacrifice. While most of us would run from gunfire, they run toward
it. That right there is enough to warrant my respect. Just imagine what the
world would be like without police. In two words, utter chaos.
--Carolyn Arnold
Author of In the Line of Duty (Detective Madison
Knight series)
Excerpt from In the Line of Duty, Chapter 4:
A life of
sacrifice to the higher good was what Madison had signed up for. She’d defend
the innocent and protect and serve if it took her life to do so, and she’d do
it despite the way the media painted things to make officers look like the bad
guys more often than not. They applied too much use of force to a situation, or
they shot someone who wasn’t armed. Meanwhile, it wasn’t disclosed that the
officer approached a subject in the dark of night and the subject was holding a
bicycle pump extended in the fashion of a gun. The officer had to make a
split-second decision that, if it had been a loaded gun, the officer or his
backup would have been shot.
And
rarely did the news share the stories of courage and bravery—how the actions of
officers saved lives and put criminals behind bars. They never reported about
the officers who resuscitated a woman who was clinically dead, saving her life
while waiting on the local paramedics to show up. No—law enforcement always
fell under the microscope of scrutiny and judgment, and yet she and her
brothers put their lives on the line every day because it was what many of them
believed they were born to do. Of course, there were some who viewed the job as
simply that, but not her. Donning her badge wasn’t something she gave thought
or consideration to each morning. It wasn’t an option. It was the same as
putting on a pair of pants or brushing her teeth.
You’ve reached the end of the
excerpt, but In the Line of Duty is
available in e-book, paperback, and hardcover from popular retailers.
About
In the Line of Duty:
He devoted his life to seeking justice.
But would she get any for him?
It
was an ordinary day for police officer Barry Weir. It was the end of shift, he
was tired, and he just wanted to get home to his wife and kids. But someone had
other plans for him, shooting him down and forcing him to make the ultimate
sacrifice.
When
news of Weir’s murder reaches the precinct, it leaves Detective Madison Knight
and every cop in the Stiles PD itching for revenge. It cuts Madison’s
boyfriend, colleague, and Weir’s childhood friend, Troy Matthews, deepest of
all, driving him away from everyone he loves just when they need one another
the most.
With
evidence pointing to a gang-related drive-by, Madison and her team investigate
the town’s seedy underbelly in search of justice for their fallen brother. But
the deeper they dig, the more convoluted the case becomes. Now they need to
figure out if this was a random shooting as part of a gang initiation, a
straight-up hate crime, or a targeted kill. But with members of the Stiles PD
under attack, they have to do it fast…before more officers pay with their
lives.
About the Detective
Madison Knight Series:
Murder.
Investigation. The pursuit of justice. Do you love trying to figure out whodunit? How about
investigating alongside police detectives from the crime scene to the forensics
lab and everywhere in between? Do you love a strong female lead? Then I invite
you to meet Detective Madison Knight as she solves murders with her male
partner, utilizing good old-fashioned investigative work aided by modern
technology.
This is the perfect book
series for fans of Law & Order, CSI, Blue
Bloods, Rizzoli & Isles, Women’s
Murder Club, and Hawaii Five-O.
Read in any order or follow
the series from the beginning: Ties That Bind, Justified, Sacrifice,
Found Innocent, Just Cause, Deadly Impulse, In the Line of Duty, Life Sentence
(Bonus Prequel).
Carolyn
Arnold is an international bestselling and award-winning author, as well as a
speaker, teacher, and inspirational mentor. She has four continuing fiction
series and has written nearly thirty books. Both her female detective and FBI
profiler series have been praised by those in law enforcement as being accurate
and entertaining, leading her to adopt the trademark, POLICE PROCEDURALS
RESPECTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT™.
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