Crime

 In October 1969 I was one of twenty-five or more San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officers who responded to the murder of a Yellow Cab driver in the Presidio Heights district of San Francisco. Investigators later attributed the murder to the so-called Zodiac killer.
Long after my police career, I began studying five Zodiac cases, his phone calls, and his written communications. I concluded that the motive in four of the murder and attempted murder cases consisting of Lake Herman, Blue Rock Springs, Lake Berryessa, and the Presidio Heights district in San Francisco, involving a total of seven victims, were cases of displaced or redirected aggression. Follow my leads and come to your own conclusion. 

 A thrilling novel sure to keep you on the edge of your chair. What was meant to be a simple camera buy at a local pawn shop led to a turn of events, that would change the life of a young man that was forced to see past and present murderous events that only he could see. His instinct of survival kept him alive long enough to find the killer that no one suspected. 

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 In the spring of 1979, one child is found dead and another child disappears. The next day, a nuclear power plant accident at the nearby Three Mile Island facility adds to the stress put on the Middletown police department.
Piano teacher, Missy Jenkins, lives across the street from the missing girl, Lindsay Blum, who is her piano student. When an evacuation causes Lindsay's pregnant mother to leave town, Missy goes with her to a shelter in nearby Hershey, PA. Missy uses her unique perspective and talents to find Lindsay, with the help of her friend, Middletown police officer Mark Milner and TV reporter, Kaye Roberts.  

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 A missing mother. A dead dance instructor. A family with many secrets. The waltz theme threads its way throughout this Christmas mystery. In the second novel of the Missy Jenkins musical mystery series, Missy joins forces with her best friend Ronnie Milner and elderly Wiccan Lorraine Withers to solve the mystery of a missing neighbor. 

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 The third novel in the Missy Jenkins musical mystery series. Death by chocolate. A fiery car crash. A senator with a shady past. A family with too many secrets. Missy finds herself in the middle of a composition of killing. And the final death could be hers. 

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 A Police Thriller that takes place in the city by the bay in the early 70's.
“The sky was dark, but the city’s sodium overhead lighting and the advertising neon illuminated the streets as if it were twilight. Distracted as I opened the driver’s side door of my unmarked cruiser, I saw a flash of light, felt something stinging my face, then heard a loud bang. I dropped to the ground, laid there momentarily, then low crawled to the back of my cruiser for more cover. I waited, maybe fifteen seconds while I composed myself, made a hasty look-see, then duckwalked back to the driver’s side door and reached inside for the radio mike, ‘Central-300, shots fired at me, Vallejo and Stockton.’” 

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 In the Fall of 1973, Detective Harvey Schlossberg, PhD, and Lt. Frank Bolz, both New York Police Department (NYPD) visionaries, brought their magic to the San Francisco Police Department’s (SFPD) Police Academy, at my request, so that we mere mortals could learn the trade of dealing with terrorists, criminal hostage-takers, and your average human in some sort of mind-bending crisis.
It has taken me the bulk of fifty years to put together the teachings of Harvey, Frank, and many, many others (including my own teaching, writing and field experiences) into a three subject treatise called, TACTICS – TEAMS – TALK, Police Managing Crises.
The first subject is TACTICS. Here, we outline some basic principles of police crises planning to include strategies; information gathering; establishing objectives, policies, protocols; and resources. Then we outline individual tactics designed to protect responders from harm in their responses.

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The second subject is TEAMS. Here, we discuss organizing the crisis response into teams. We present a situation chart that identifies team roles, including tactical and command leadership; containment and cover; traffic control; evacuation and aid; entry and rescue; investigations and negotiations; and resources and reserves.
The third subject is TALK. Here, we discuss investigating and negotiating strategies; the eight steps of investigating; the role of crisis negotiating; the eight links of a negotiating strategy; the negotiating team; the eight tools of communicating; and several other interesting topics.
So, this is my story and I’ll be sticking to it, hopefully in plain English and in abbreviated form so we call all understand the processes involved. But before we start, bear with me while I define some terms we will be using throughout our work. 

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