Lee Lofland’s list of common mistakes writers make about police work

Writers, read and heed this list of common mistakes writers make about police investigations, from Lee Lofland, retired homicide detective and author of Police Procedure and Investigation: A Guide for Writers (Writers Digest Books), who keeps us honest on his blog, The Graveyard Shift. I talk about some of this in my common mistakes talk — particularly the difference between state and federal crimes — but Lee gives it the cop-on-the-street perspective.

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