![]() ![]() ![]() So I see a lot of our flavor in books these days," he says. "We've had thousands of authors attend this thing. He still sees such mistakes in crime fiction, but Lofland believes that his program is having impact. "They get that stuff from the movies and TV," he says. The cordite scene is one of his pet peeves so are things such as brass casings found at the scene of a murder where the shooter used a revolver, or totally out of character depictions of how the police and FBI function. Lofland gets particularly annoyed when crime fiction includes scenes where detectives can still smell cordite-the ballistic propellant that hasn't been used since World War II-from gunfire at a crime scene. ![]() "I had read so many books that were so wrong about police work, and I wanted to fix that," he says. Lofland says he started the Writers' Police Academy after his retirement from law enforcement. ![]() The kits are produced according to the legal requirements of each state. Workers at Sirchie assemble sexual assault evidence collection kits. ![]()
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