JIM DOHERTY <
jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
<< Scott,
Re your question below:
> But the one thing I find distinctive (and
> fascinating) is Conelley's strong
> focus on the oft-Byzantine internal workings of
the
> LAPD.
> Theyr'e almost as much about cop-style
office
> politics as crime. Does
> anyone know of any other
procedural/hardboiled
> writers with a similar focus?
Off the top of my head, Robert Daley and William Caunitz
spend as much time on the internal politics of the NYPD as
they do on the crime being solved. Both were NYPD veterans.
Daley, a journalist by profession, spent a a year as NYPD
deputy commissioner for public relations, and Caunitz was a
detective lieutenant in charge of a precinct squad.
Dan Mahoney, a former NYPD detective captain, also spends
some time on NYPD politics, but his presentation is much more
benign than Connelly, Daley, or Caunitz.
>>
Jerome Charyn does this as well in the Isaac novels, but the
style Charyn uses -- sort of that fantasmagorical folk tale
style -- keeps the politics very much at what I'd call a
mythic level, with evil/corrupt cops and bureaucrats versus
good-but-flawed cops.
-- Duane
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