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Special thanks to Blue Starsky for sharing this marvelous resource!

POLICE URLS:

LAPD Online: http://www.lapdonline.org/index.htm

Unofficial LAPD site: http://www.car-54.com/

SFPD Site:http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/police/

SFPD Course Catalog (everything from Snipers School to Excel 97): http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/police/careers/mnusub64.htm

California police codes: http://pimall.com/nais/n.radio.code.html

California Law Enforcement online: http://www.pima.edu/dps/ca.htm

Cop Net: http://www.copnet.org/

Chicago Police online glossary of Police Abbreviations, Acronyms & Terminology: http://www.ci.chi.il.us/CommunityPolicing/Glossary.html

Police Assignments List (short): http://www.ci.san-diego.ca.us/police/career/officer.shtml#Police Assignments

Crime Fighter's Arsenal: http://home.snap.com/LMOID/resource/0,566,-274,00.html
http://www.policescanner.com/

The Police Officer's Intenet Directory: http://www.officer.com/

Law Enforcement Links Directory:
http://www.leolinks.com/ (slow)
http://www.leolinks.com/search/Miscellaneous/TV_Cops_/index.shtml (no S&H)

Ventura College Criminal Justice Department Course Listings: http://www.copquest.com/vccj/cj_cour.htm

Anatomy of a Murder Home Page: http://tqd.advanced.org/2760/homep.htm
Includes glossary of legal terminology, links to see actual documents filled out in the course of an arrest.

What cars do cops use? http://www.speedtrap.com/copcars/

The Spy Shop: http://www.w2.com/docs2/z/spyshop.html

Prisoner's Dictionary: http://www.wco.com/~aerick/lingo.htm

Crime and Clues, The art & science of criminal investigation: http://crimeandclues.com/

Crime Fighter's Arsenal: http://home.snap.com/LMOID/resource/0,566,-274,00.html
Lots of links to police and crime pages

Street Gang Slang: http://www.ci.houston.tx.us/citygovt/mayor/antigang/slang.html

Info on capital punishment in California:
http://www.cdc.state.ca.us/issues/capital/capital2.htm
In 1977 capital punishment was reinstated and also they added the punishment of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Plainclothes "color of the day" rules (?): http://www.courttv.com/casefiles/verdicts/deldebbio.html

Latent Prints Examination, fingerprints, palmprints, footprints: http://onin.com/fp/

GUN URLS:

Association of Firearm and Toolmark Examiners: http://www.afte.org/

Firearms Identification: http://www.geocities.com/~jsdoyle/A_FirearmsID.htm

Firearms Tutorial: http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNINTRO.html

Ballistics, Firearms Links: http://haven.ios.com/~nyrc/new18.htm

Gun Hoo, Gun pages central: http://www.gunsgunsguns.com/gunhoo/

Gun Cleaning Tips: http://www.kleen-bore.com/gun_cleaning_tips.html

FORENSIC SCIENCE URLS: http://www.tncrimlaw.com/forensic/

Forensic Science Web Page: http://users.aol.com/murrk/

Zeno's Forensic Science Page: http://forensic.to/forensic.html

MEDICAL RESOURCES:

"Violence, accidents, poisoning"
[Includes stuff like how a dead body looks after so many minutes/hours; alcoholism and health, choking -
technical and a little hard to plow through to find what you want. Good combination of crime and medical information.]

Ed Friedlander, M.D., Pathologist: http://www.pathguy.com/lectures/env-23.htm

First aid for gunshot wounds: http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/depts/pl/fiction/2wwe07s1.htm

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/

http://www.mwsearch.com/

Medical World Search: http://library.advanced.org/10624/index.html (first aid)
http://library.advanced.org/10624/health.html (when to worry)
http://www.healthcentral.com/library/library.cfm

Cascade Hospital: A website for medical info that fanfic writers.
This was originally written for Sentinel fans, and has a lot of references to that show, but the site has good information for anyone.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/8097/medmain.html

http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/alphalist.html
(Complete alphabetical listing A - Z of diseases and disorders.)

Medicinal and Poisonous Plants Directory:
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mct/Plants/index.html

http://www.amherst.edu/~cdsulliv/bruss/emer/menu.html

http://www.xmission.com/~gastown/herpmed/med.htm
Snakebite and Wilderness Medicine:

CALIFORNIA:

Information on California: http://www.state.ca.us/s/

Map of Los Angeles area:

http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&YY=24637&city=Los%20Angeles&state=CA&slt=34.0522&sln=-118.2428&mlt=34.0546&mln=-118.2458&mag=4&cs=5&newmag=5

THE SEVENTIES:

http://rt66.com/dthomas/70s/links.html

70s TV for Grown Ups: http://fsrusc.home.mindspring.com/wave%20page3.html

A Nasty Looking Page Devoted to the 70s (That's what it's called!)
http://sun1.bham.ac.uk/burforar/nasty.html

WRITING, GRAMMAR, PUNCTUATION, ETC.

Elements of Style by Strunk & White: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/strunk/

Purdue University Writing Lab (help with writing in general, punctuation, etc.)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/writers/by-topic.html

11 Rules of Writing: http://www.junketstudies.com/rulesofw/frules.html

Grammar Slammer: http://englishplus.com/grammar/

Writers Resources @ the Open Directory Project: http://dmoz.org/Arts/Writers_Resources/

The Internet Writing Journal: www.writerswrite.com/journal

Holy Mother Grammatica's Guide To Good Writing: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/9414/hmg1.html

Plot ideas: Thirty-six dramatic situations (WordPlay site): http://www.wordplayer.com/archives/poltisitu.01-12.html

Ten Big Myths about Copyright Explained: http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

Names for writers: http://www2.parentsoup.com/babynames/

FAN FICTION:

How to write almost readable Fan Fiction
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/6454/HowTo2.html

Dr. Merlin's Guide to Fan Fiction: http://missy.reimer.com/library/guide.html

Fanzine Terminology and Types of Zines: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bentley/fanfic/glossary.html

The Fanzine FAQ: http://fanzines.com/faq/

Tiffany's Fanfic Glossary: http://members.xoom.com/dellastreet/glossary.htm

SLASH & GENERAL GAY INFORMATION:

Pass the Crisco, Spock:
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/live_culture/lc1/articles/slash.html

Woman-written 'slash' newspaper article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/eguide/archive/1999/09/30/neva.dtl&type=printable

In Defense of Slash: http://www.chisp.net/~zoerayne/defense.html

Raonaid's View of Slash: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/2564/slash.html

From T'Mar's Slash Page: What is slash? http://users.fast.co.za/~tmar/slash/basic.htm

and, from the same site, My view: http://users.fast.co.za/~tmar/slash/myview.htm

The Slash Tutorial: http://adult.dencity.com/Krychick/slash_tutorial/tutorialindex.html

Women & Slash: Why, why, why? http://members.dencity.com/anhedonia/julad/essay.html

Slash Writer's Glossary: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/1126/glossary.html

So You Want to be a Slash Writer? http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/1126/writer.html

Wizard's Gay Slang Dictionary: http://www.hurricane.net/~wizard/19a.html

Minotaur's Sex Tips for Slash Writers: http://www.gis.net/~minotaur/Tips/index.html

All-Purpose How To Queer Sex Guide: http://www.jetlagdesign.com/sexguide/

Deviants' Dictionary: http://www.queernet.org/deviant/dictindx.htm

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