Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 57

 Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 5 57

A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES

SECOND EDITION

 

APPENDIX: PIERCE R. BROOKS

Pierce Brooks was born in Los Angeles in 1923. He lived there until World War II, when he left to fly for the U.S. Navy. After the war, he returned to Los Angeles and in 1948 joined the police department.

Brooks served in patrol, vice, and narcotics assignments before he moved to homicide. His rise to the elite homicide unit was rather quick, because he was there in 1957 to work on the case of Harvey Glatman, having joined the department only nine years earlier. His promotions in the department continued until 1969, when he retired with the rank of captain.