Author: gvbeatty

I have had five careers and counting. Started as a cop walking the beat in Harlem, moved up the ranks very fast to the rank of Captain with the NYPD and had a wide variety of assignments including: In-Charge of a Detective Squad; Supervisor of the Vice Squad in lower Manhattan; Lieutenant in Charge of the first experimental Street Crime Unit in Bedford Stuyvesant that was so successful that the idea was implemented city wide and is now an important part of every major department in the nation. As a Captain in the South Bronx, I was also responsible for the investigation of many police officer involved shootings and other unusual occurrences in the Bronx. I also wrote major parts of the Police Manual including revising and editing the disciplinary procedures for the NYPD along with my friend Joe D. McNamara who later became Police Chief of Kansas City and then San Jose. The author as producer, along with other officers created the first “Shoot, Don’t Shoot” training film in the U.S. called “Moment of Decision”. It was used by as many as 150 other departments to train officers. I also created a police TV training and communication program Called “The Police Commissioner” for the NYPD that involved writing short speeches for the Commissioner and included spontaneous dialogue between the commissioner and street cops regarding any topic that was of concern to the officers. It was written up in the NY Times. Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of my life was raising five children as a single parent while running a private security company employing over 140 people, going to the State University of New York for my graduate degrees and working full-time as a Professor, all at the same time. Recently, I wrote and published a book entitled “How Not to Get Shot by the Police: A Cop’s Point of View Go to Amazon.com and you can find my book. The best is yet to come.