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A future blog will certainly be covering this issue in detail, but as an important aside, novelists who write about cops seek a great deal of information in order to honor the accuracy of what law enforcement does to protect and serve. But it is often difficult to find this information with any specificity, since it is proprietary, for the most part, to those who work in law enforcement. Thanks will *not* go, therefore, to realpolice.net, which has a forum section wherein officers are supposedly glad to provide information about police work to writers. I was met with condescension and mean-spirited insults, (bordering on misogyny and homophobia), as well as the ultimate double standard when my rebuttal to a particularly haughty officer resulted in the deletion of my post, since it was a "personal attack." Ironic, considering it was self-defense from the attack on me by a particular officer. Police, police thyself.