So You Want to Be a Cop ?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a cop? Well it's time to find out.<p> Follow Stan Otremba from his beginnings as a relief bailiff at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in 1959. There he hears the case of Johnny Stompanato who turned up dead in his home one night. Stompanato's stepdaughter Cheryl Crane testifies that she killed him because he was beating her mother. But bailiff Otremba is suspicious and years later he finds out what really happened.<p> When he becomes a full-fledged police officer with the Santa Maria Police Department Otremba investigates murders rapes suicides and more. As a deputy coroner he sees still yet another side of the law but it's not a pretty one. <p> Along the way Otremba adapts to the changes in law enforcement enjoying the new technology that becomes available from the Law Enforcement Assistance Program and fine-tuning his crime-fighting tactics.<p> Follow an insider through twenty-eight years of action in <i>So You Want to Be a Cop </i> ?