For 150 years, LAPD officers have pinned on a badge, holstered a gun and traveled the corridors of history, leaving behind the rich traditions that are today's LAPD. Guardians of Angels is a penetrating history of the Los Angeles Police Department since 1850. Thoroughly researched over eight years, containing scores of interviews and illustrated with hundreds of rare photographs, this book details how the department evolved from six officers administering frontier justice to today's high-tech professionals. It brings to life the accomplishments and disappointments of the men and women who unselfishly gave of themselves as the Guardians of Angels.

Guardians of Angels is a penetrating history of the Los Angeles Police Department since 1850, following the department over its controversial history through to the high-tech professionals of today.

Ripped from today's headlines, Unsolved is the first ever book to examine the sacrifices made by American's heroic law enforcement officers who were murdered while their killers escaped justice. Building on years of comprehensive nationwide research, Bultema puts a story behind some of the names etched on police monuments across this country.

The Protectors takes the reader down the streets of police history with over 300 rare and thought-provoking images taken from across the country. Police officers are at the front lines of history, and with the advent of photography in the 1850s, the journey of these men and women has been captured one shutter frame at a time. The Protectors uses the magic of the camera to present a compelling portrait of police officers throughout the United States simply doing their jobs. Relive America's story as it unfolds through the eyes of police officers, and partner with the brave souls who are the protectors of a nation.

"This book showcases Ulysses S. Grant, from his first photograph--taken just after his graduation from West Point--to his last breath at Mount McGregor. To help the reader understand Grant's decisions, Bultema included excerpts from Grant's writing around the time the pictures were taken"--