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Houston Blue
''Houston Blue: The Story of the Houston Police Department'' is a 2012 non-fiction book by Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy, published by the University of North Texas Press, chronicling the history of the Houston Police Department, history of the Houston Police Department. Jesús Jesse Esparza, in a journal article, described the book as one of "several seminal works [that] deal with the issue of police misconduct". Contents The first author, Roth, is a professor at Sam Houston State University and the second, Kennedy, at one time wrote newspaper articles for the ''Houston Post''. The book was produced in a six year period after the Houston Police Officers' Union hired both authors in 2004. The authors consulted archives as part of their research. The creators of the book conducted around 100 interviews. The photographs printed in the illustrations are shown without color. Reception Brian D. Behnken of Iowa State University, in his review in ''The Journal of Southern History'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston Blue
''Houston Blue: The Story of the Houston Police Department'' is a 2012 non-fiction book by Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy, published by the University of North Texas Press, chronicling the history of the Houston Police Department, history of the Houston Police Department. Jesús Jesse Esparza, in a journal article, described the book as one of "several seminal works [that] deal with the issue of police misconduct". Contents The first author, Roth, is a professor at Sam Houston State University and the second, Kennedy, at one time wrote newspaper articles for the ''Houston Post''. The book was produced in a six year period after the Houston Police Officers' Union hired both authors in 2004. The authors consulted archives as part of their research. The creators of the book conducted around 100 interviews. The photographs printed in the illustrations are shown without color. Reception Brian D. Behnken of Iowa State University, in his review in ''The Journal of Southern History'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |