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Pierce R. Brooks began his police career in 1949, as a
beat cop in Los Angeles. Twenty years later he retired as a captain with the
reputation as one of the best detectives in the United States. After the Los
Angeles Police Department, in May 0f 1970, Chief Brooks served as the Director of Public Safety in Lakewood, Colorado. Brooks gained famed as the detective in Joseph Wambaugh’s book, “The Onion Field,” a true story of a brutal police killing. An acknowledged
expert on police survival, he has conducted many seminars and lectures through the country.
Brooks firm belief that most police killings could have been avoided motivated him to write, “…officer
down, code three.”
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