Dangerous Beauty

It's easy to get lost in Lane County, Oregon - in many ways. Since the 1850s, the county's law enforcement agencies have worked to protect the county's people, in an environment that has changed in ways the early pioneers could never have imagined.

Here is police work from the inside, told by the cops themselves: tragedy, humor, and the daily grind, from the first sheriff coping with robbery, murder, and hogs running wild in the streets of Eugene to the age of DNA analysis. Throughout, the constants remain: courage, intelligence, a sharp eye, and a feel for the subtleties of human behavior - and misbehavior.