Books
February, 1992
Joseph Wambaugh began his writing career by drawing on 14 years of L.A.P.D. experience to show the human side of police work. In novels, nonfiction and in his Police Story TV series, he showed us young cops who laughed and suffered through the stress of daily tragedy. It seemed natural that they were all men.Today, however, is a new era. We have women police officers and women protagonists in crime fiction. Breda Burrows, a 20-year veteran of the L.A.P.D. who is starting her own detective agency...
