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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wow, this is an amazing and shocking story...., September 25, 2003
By A Customer
This book chronicles the working and corruption of San Bernardino Police dept. Scary because it's non-fiction. Very interesting as to how the police can deal with all elements that they are exposed to on a daily basis. How certain departments condone a superior attitude to the people they are suppposed to serve. This was a real wake up call to what goes on behind the Blue line. I can only hope Stephen Peach gets the justice he rightly deserves.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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To serve and Protect....Themselves, March 1, 2004
By A Customer
SAN BERNARDINO, California - Corruption, intimidation and rape are not words most would normally associate with members of the nation's police forces. However, power sometimes intoxicates and can make one feel like they are above the law, even if they are sworn to protect it. Stephen K. Peach tells a story of internal corruption and cover-up in the San Bernardino Police Department in his shocking and revealing new book, Friendly Fire? The Good, The Bad and The Corrupt.
Stephen Peach emigrated from England to the United States in 1986 to follow his dream of becoming a police officer. After becoming a U.S. Citizen, he began his career in 1991 with the San Bernardino Police Department and became a highly regarded gang investigator and S.W.A.T. officer. His personable style encouraged trust and confidence in the people he met, and his eye for detail helped solve numerous crimes. In 1998, things fell apart. He was shot twice in two weeks on two separate S.W.A.T. calls. The second time occurred as he was serving a warrant on a former San Bernardino detective. Peach says that his supervisor shot him in the leg to initiate a gun battle between the former detective and Peach's fellow officers. The wound nearly killed him. He fought hard to return to his post and later discovered an officer in the department was raping women.
When one of the victims named the offending officer, the department ignored it and looked to cover up his crimes. Peach was singled out as a liability and had to go. Now, he tells his story. With Friendly Fire?, he hopes to expose the corruption that he discovered in his own department and redeem some of the honor of his badge. "The pattern of corruption in San Bernardino is a disgrace to all the officers that are honest and put their lives in jeopardy every day to serve the citizens. The purpose of his book is to hold those that are corrupt accountable," Peach says. Friendly Fire? is his first book.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Exposing Police Corruption, October 7, 2003
This book exposes the dirty underside of Law Enforcement politics. I was a highly regarded gang and SWAT officer that was the victim of 2 accidental? shootings within 2 weeks of each other by other officers. The second time I was shot by my supervisor while serving a warrant on an ex-detective. I was shot to initiate a gunfight between a SWAT team and the detective, it worked, the team believing that the ex-detective had shot me tried to shoot the ex-detective. I returned to work 5 months later, disabled and slightly disillusioned however I continued to work the streets and I used my vast network of informants to find a Police officer rapist. I tried in vain to bring about an internal investigation for a year to expose the rapist however the department turned their corruption upon me to discredit me, trying to frame me with a crime they knew I didn't commit. If it became common knowledge that I had tried to expose the police officer rapist, the dozens of victims could sue and bankrupt the City. The San Bernardino Police Department protected the rapist as he had witnessed drug money thefts in search warrants that the administration took part in. "What happened to me is common in Police Agencies, if they could do this to me, someone who understand the law, what else is going on?" My book exposes the corruption that City Governments allow to occur to protect their civil liability. Many other corrupt activities that I have exposed in my book have never been exposed before. This is a true story of many different crimes that administrators and their corrupt subordinates have committed that they would rather not have exposed.
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