Books:
Honor Without Integrity
ONE TIME - THE STORY OF A SOUTH CENTRAL LOS ANGELES POLICE OFFICER
by Brian S. Bentley
is one Patrol Officer's personal journey across the "thin blue line" of the Los Angeles Police Department. Set in the backdrop of South Central Los Angeles, Officer Bentley and his partner do whatever it takes to arrest, book and ensure convictions of dangerous gang members. As a subplot, they also do whatever it takes to make the late nights more exciting and pleasurable on a person level. It is dramatic personal tesitmony and insight offered in a manner that is intriguing, intense and at times humerous."My training and experience gave me the confidence that I could justity pulling over anyone I pleased. I'm certain I could have justified stopping a car driven by civil rights attorney Johnny Cochran, with Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse jackson as passengers, soley because I felt like it. Like it or not, every person driving through South Central LA is fair game."
Honor Without Integrity
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"I once said, "If I can change one person's life around , then I've made a difference. So far, the only attitude and life that has been changed is my own."How did an idealistic, middle-class college graduate wind up wearing a badge and pounding the mean streets of South Central Los Angeles? That's the question officer Bentley asked himself after eight years on the force, living and working in one of the toughest neighborhoods in America. One Time is a candid and brutal look at the life of a Black cop with the LAPD. Bentley says he became a police officer because he wanted to make a difference and to change even one life. Unfortunately, he found that the only life he changed was his own. He lost hope, gave in to episodes of violence and abuse while relishing the power given to him by his badge and his gun.
One Time pulls no punches! The author recreates the joy, pain and frustrations he felt as he tried to do what was right. One Time brings great, dramatic stories of South Central Los Angeles to life. It is a story about the inner workings of America's most powerful institutions, the LAPD