[William Tell 2]

If you read my novel “ A Sense of Duty” ( available at Barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.com), you will see that I address - in a fictitious way - many of the problems that hamper law enforcement in Philadelphia.

Although fiction, the scenes are derived from my experiences as a police officer in Philadelphia.

So, while I hope it is entertaining, I also hope to enlighten people about police work in Philly ( and elsewhere). Bestselling author WEB Griffin - who wrote a series of novels set in Philadelphia and about the Philly PD - said “A Sense of Duty” provides an insight about law enforcement.

I think if you read it, you would have a better understanding of the criminal justice system in Philadelphia and why the politicians who blame guns for the carnage are just engaging in political theater.

(Thanks for permitting me to plug my novel.)

[Gritty]

Thanks for posting. I'll be sure to read your book.

It's not the guns who are out of control, it's the politicians and their enablers. What you point out so well is in large measure the result of the scourge of Liberal corruption and the utter failure of their policies which have allowed - nay, encouraged - once great cities to turn into cesspools. These politicians deserve to be put in jail along with the (other) criminals.

Sure, we'll always have street criminals. But when it's the inept, corrupt, coiffured criminal class running a city, the city doesn't stand a chance - no matter how many silly gun laws craven politicians get passed.

It's the moral rot from top to bottom causing the problem - not the "excess" of forged iron and brass.

[bill1952]

>the scenes are derived from my experiences as a police officer in Philadelphia.

What part of Philly?

Believe it or not my former wife was from Philly, and not the Greater Northeast, either.

2nd and Allegany. - Of course, that was back in the old Frank Rizzo days.

- I’ll be sure to get your book at B&N. :)

[blam]

A Sense of Duty

"The Philadelphia Bulletin calls A 'Sense Of Duty' : A Double Shot Of Testosterone Michael P. Tremoglie's "does for big city police training what Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam classic, "Full Metal Jacket" did for U. S. Marine boot camp. ..Tremoglie's attention to detail and understanding of the psychological hazards circling around his characters draws its readers into a world fraught with pending disaster, mixed with the joy of accomplishment, and then hit with the harsh reality of the eventualities its inhabitants tried so hard to avoid. "A Sense Of Duty" deals with clashes. Clashes between cultures, social status, ideologies, political parties, races, sexes, along with hopes and dreams. --The Philadelphia Bulletin "