Background
Stephen P. Beeler was born on March 28, 1943, in Bell, California, United States. He is the son of Justin J. and Edyth (Brown) Beeler.
800 N State College Blvd, Fullerton, CA 92831, United States
California State University, Fullerton, where Stephen Beeler received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
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Pepperdine University where Stephen Beeler received his Master of Arts degree.
800 N State College Blvd, Fullerton, CA 92831, United States
California State University, Fullerton, where Stephen Beeler received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
24255 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu, CA 90263, United States
Pepperdine University where Stephen Beeler received his Master of Arts degree.
(The Firestone Syndrome is a hard, realistic, intense, and...)
The Firestone Syndrome is a hard, realistic, intense, and sometimes sadly humorous look at street cops and the inside politics of the largest sheriff's department in the world. It follows an idealistic young deputy as he struggles with those politics and simultaneously battles what he perceives to be his own inability to use the lethal force that would gain him entrance into the "in" group.
https://www.amazon.com/Firestone-Syndrome-Stephen-Beeler/dp/0970657641
2002
Stephen P. Beeler was born on March 28, 1943, in Bell, California, United States. He is the son of Justin J. and Edyth (Brown) Beeler.
Stephen Beeler began his studies at California State University, Fullerton, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. Then he obtained a Master of Arts degree from Pepperdine University.
Stephen Beeler, after completing his degrees, did his military service in the United States Army from 1963 till 1965 becoming a sergeant. Then he joined the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department as a commander where he worked till 1986. He retired as a lieutenant becoming security director at Forest Highlands Association in 1995 and is now in retirement. He also did private consulting on security, hostage survival, and emergency police procedures, and was an expert witness in federal court in emergency police procedures and hostage negotiations. He held teaching credentials in both California and Arizona.
His only book, The Firestone Syndrome, a suspense novel, was published in 2002. While writing it, he was in the hospital facing a cancer operation. Writing helped him get his mind off his problems. The writing is influenced by his experiences and a desire to have people feel what police work is really like. The experience and trials he faced as a young cop in Los Angeles during the '60s and '70s at the notorious Los Angeles County Firestone Sheriff's Station led him to write this book. It is a novel based on a historical era and times, and it is the reader's prerogative to determine if this could happen anywhere at any time. His objective was to depict how power, control, and money play an important part in major law enforcement departments, regardless of the idealistic virtues taught in academy courses. He also wanted to show how all-powerful information is used and misused to gain rank, wield power, and sometimes destroy lives.
Stephen Beeler is especially known for his twenty-year work for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department where he gained the reputation of a distinguished professional. He also expressed himself in the writing field and is the author of the book The Firestone Syndrome which got a wide response from readers as well as reviewers.
(The Firestone Syndrome is a hard, realistic, intense, and...)
2002Stephen Beeler's writing process is to get up at five o'clock in the morning, make coffee, lock himself in his library, take fifteen minutes to work himself into character, and then start writing on a legal tablet.
He is inspired by his experiences with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the many people he met along the way.
Stephen Beeler married Diana Sanders on September 1, 1984. The marriage produced one daughter, Dana Wrynne (Beeler) Capolla.
