Pure Cop Author:Connie Fletcher PURE COP gets to the cops almost nobody ever meets, the cops most reporters can't get to , the cops Hollywood, TV, and fiction writers usually get wrong. Bomb technicians. Arson investigators. Accident reconstructionists. Hostage negotiators. SWAT team members. Crime scent investigators. Crime ... more »lab technicians. These cops major in criminal specializations; they're scholars of the street and the crime scene. The arcane is their beat. Fingerprint technicians will tell you that the right hand of a bartender is extremely difficult to lift prints from: accident reconstructions will tell you that when a pedestrian is hit by a car, he will be knocked right out of his shoes, even laced ones, and sometimes the socks at the exact point of impact; hostage negotiators will tell you that professional criminals are the easiest hostage-takers to deal with; arson investigators will tell you that revenge arsonists are often women, bomb technicians will tell you that the way a bomb is put together can reveal the identity of the bomb-maker as surely as fingerprints or handwriting analysis.
These cops are all but hidden from the public by the complicated nature of much of their work and their unwillingness to have their investigative techniques trivialized, distorted, or misinterpreted by the media. The world of the highly specialized units is cordoned off from the public and the media.
PURE COP lifts the "Police Line---Do Not Cross" tape blocking the public from the highly specialized units. PURE COP also lifts the screen separating the public from what goes on in the street, including beat cops and cops who work undercover prostitution operations---from male and female streetwalkers through escort services to call girls (and boys).« less