Badge, a Gun, an Attitude
During his 25 years with the Los Angeles County Sheriff''s Department, Dean Scoville advanced from nervous recruit to silver-tongued spokesperson to seasoned patrol sergeant. His candid memoir chronicles the personal experiences of police work--the tedium of guarding jail inmates, the consternation of shoot/don''t-shoot scenarios, the trauma of being wounded in the line of duty--and offers an i...
During his 25 years with the Los Angeles County Sheriff''s Department, Dean Scoville advanced from nervous recruit to silver-tongued spokesperson to seasoned patrol sergeant. His candid memoir chronicles the personal experiences of police work--the tedium of guarding jail inmates, the consternation of shoot/don''t-shoot scenarios, the trauma of being wounded in the line of duty--and offers an i...
