Legal Minds: Detecting Rogue Police Officers and Other Important Law Enforcement Issues.

Legal Minds: Detecting Rogue Police Officers and Other Important Law Enforcement Issues

Robert L. Davis and Dr. Roxanne M. Davidson

iUniverse, Inc.

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ISBN 9780595486090, $ 13.95, 2008, www.iuniverse.com, 1-800-288-4677

Robert L. Davis, former police officer with the New Orleans Police Department, has dedicated his life in a crusade to give the general public an awareness of the peril and presence in many large cities of "rogue" police officers. His new book "Legal Minds" offers revealing insights to help recognize a bad police officer, the signs to look for, and how to report your experience.

The material is a compilation of previously-written articles, interviews, and queries from e-mails received on his website from readers of his first book, "Cop Out," and from those attending lectures, workshops, and seminars presented by the author. The contents of the short chapters are clearly defined in the table of contents so that the subjects may be read in any order depending on the reader's specific interest, as they are each independent of one another.

Davis addresses such questions, how to respond if arrested, steps women can take to avoid rape, lie detector tests, Miranda rights, pardons and probation. He explains clemencies, extradition, fugitives, felonies, prisons, and jails. Citations, searches and seizures, DUI's, and police brutality are all discussed, as well as the behavior patterns of serial killers.

The assessments and professional opinions of Dr. Roxanne M. Davidson add credence to the questions and answers discussed by Robert Davis. Davidson offers insight into the potential motives and behavior patterns of the criminal mind.

Davis writes with the fervor of a zealot. Some will call Davis an alarmist. Others will applaud his willingness to take a public stand against an evil force. In all fairness to the reader, I must point out the frequent repetition of information by Davis. While repetition can be an effective teaching tool in assimilating information there is a danger of becoming redundant. The reader may interpret this as an "infomercial" or simply an attempt to promote his earlier book "Cop Out." However, it is the intent of the authors to provide guidelines that may save human life, and help protect the law-abiding citizen from unfair and unethical police officers.

"Legal Minds" can be a helpful guide to anyone who has been affected by a "bad" experience with receiving a citation, confronted with an arrest, or been harassed by a police officer.

Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader View