Scott Baker left the NYPD because of injuries sustained in the line of duty.  While he was there he served mostly in the 109th Precinct in Queens, in a city where, at the time (1990's), there were over 2,000 homicides a year. 

Baker was much decorated, and while he started out as regular beat cop, he was often called upon by other units to assist in combating robberies, prostitution, narcotics, burglaries and more. As such it gave him a cafeteria-style view of police work.

A marketing major at Hofstra University, Baker is keenly aware of the importance of marketing in the selling a book. He is bursting with great promotional ideas, and is ready, willing and able to assist in promoting the book in any way he can.

His first book, written with Tom Philbin, was published by Andrews McMeel in September, 2006, and is called The Funniest Cop Stories Ever.

Tom Philbin comes from a New York cop family. His grandfather walked a beat in Manhattan for 36 years, his uncle Jimmy Williams was a much-decorated detective in the old “Fort Apache” precinct (he was in two gunfights), Jimmy’s son Blake was a plainclothes cop in the Bronx and Tom’s father was an investigator with the Immigration & Naturalization Service and for years lectured at the NYPD on immigration matters.  

Tom, a long-time free-lance writer, has always loved cop stories, and has written some himself: 9 cop novels for Ballantine Books in the Precinct Siberia series, one Fawcett Crest Mystery, The Yearbook Killer, two novelizations of cop movies (Blink and The Rookie) and in 1997 he won his first Quill and Badge Award for Excellence in Writing from the International Union of Police Associations for his book Copspeak: The Lingo of Long Enforcement & Crime (Wiley). 

In 2007 Philbin published two books on horse racing for Harper/Collins: Barbaro and Two Minutes to Glory: The Official History of the Kentucky Derby, which he co-authored in cooperation  with Churchill Downs, as well as The Killer Book of True Crime Trivia (Sourcebooks, Inc.)