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5.0 out of 5 stars
What a job :o),
By DM (ORegon) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Beverly Hills is My Beat: A Famous Career Policeman Recalls His 30 Lively Years on the Police Force of a Unique City That Has more of Everything ... More Money, More Celebrities .. More Glamour, and More New-Making Crimes. (Hardcover)
39 years of law enforcement. 27 of them as Beverly Hills Police Chief. I enjoyed the book.
Anderson began his career in law enforcement as a Beverly Hills police officer in 1929. He was promoted to chief of police in December, 1942. During his tenure as chief, Anderson gained a reputation as a strict, no-nonsense disciplinarian. Anderson directed some of the most sensational investigations in the nation--the stabbing of Johnny Stompanato by Lana Turner's 14-year-old daughter and the slaying of mob leader Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel in 1947. In 1950, he appeared before the state Senate Committee on Un-American Activities, accusing Assemblyman Vernon Kilpatrick of the 55th District of being a Communist. In 1969, he was voted man of the year by the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and Civic Assn. He retired in March of that year. page 215 Police offers have to stand up and be counted on public issues and maintain certain fundamental ideals even if they are unpopular. After many years of dealing with the public a policeman knows an unsound ideal when it comes along. When the Stockholm Peace Petition was circulated in Beverly Hills, we stopped it promptly, knowing that it was Communist backed. We know that too many citizens will sign petitions without reading them and let their names be used by groups whose real purpose is unknown to them. It is up to the police to prevent them from making such mistakes. People have to be controlled, evaluated and guided by the police. Many otherwise law-abiding citizens have moral blind spots and have to be kept in line. I find those last two sentences very scary, don't you? Interesting fact he writes. "There are many frustrations about police work, the chief of which is that despite the improvement we have made during the last 30 years in our methods the national crime rate is increasing. An FBI report recently disclosed that in a 10-year period the number of major crimes reported annually in the United States increased from 1,685,000 to 2,800,000, or three times as fast as the increase in population during the same period. And this occurred at a time when our national economy was at a high peak."
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