The Biblical Roots of Mormonism by Eric Shuster and Charles Sale – Countdown to Christmas 2010

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Charles “Chuck” Sale has been writing and editing for more than 40 years, but he took more time than that to become a Latter-day Saint. He and his wife were baptized in November 2002.

He began writing and editing during his 30-year career in the Los Angeles Police Department. As a young police officer, he was directly involved in street operations to quell the 1965 Watts riots. This led to extensive research, writing, and editing in the development of plans for large-scale emergencies. He was involved in initial discussions of the SWAT concept and administrative support for early SWAT training. He wrote the station defense manual for the Los Angeles Police Academy. During the Vietnam war era, he worked on plans for the security of key political figures, including the President of the United States, and played a leadership role in policing violent demonstrations against the war. He was involved in the investigation of the Robert Kennedy assassination. In the early 1970s, Chief of Police Ed Davis loaned him to the federal Task Force on Police to help write proposed standards and goals for local law enforcement agencies across the nation. He edited the book, Police, in which these standards and goals were published. He was also editor and co-author of Human Relations in the Police Service, a handbook that teaches the human relations principles police officers must master to realize professional excellence. Both books found their way into law enforcement agencies and the police science departments of colleges and universities across the country.

Mr. Sale served as adjutant to numerous LAPD command and staff officers, including former Chief of Police Daryl Gates. He developed curriculum and taught at the Los Angeles Police Academy and Glendale College, hosted an LAPD public-service talk show for KABC radio, and conducted an editorial review of security plans for the 1984 Olympic Games. In the latter part of his law enforcement career, he led the Special Projects Unit, which provided administrative support to the Chief of Police. He supervised a wide variety of research and development projects, including work with Jack Cover, inventor of the TASER. He was the speechwriter for the Chief of Police and members of his general staff. Sale has extensive experience in rapid stand-up and operation of field command posts and was for many years on the staff of the Emergency Operations Center, the City-wide emergency command post. He served there during the 1992 riots and other City-wide emergencies.

During those years, he was also a part-time proofreader for the Los Angeles Times and an editorial adviser to doctoral candidates at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Then and now, Mr. Sale does freelance writing, editing, and management consulting for a wide range of clients. He founded Sale & Associates, a management consulting and administrative services firm. His wife, Teri, is a CPA and former Director of Finance, Universal Pictures Marketing. She and others participate in the work of Sale & Associates.

Mr. Sale was born in California, and graduated from California State University, Los Angeles, with a degree in English. He is the father of five children and the grandfather of seven. He and his wife, Teri, live in Colorado Springs.