A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Rodney Demery
Birthplace:
Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
Rodney L. Demery is an American retired homicide detective as well as TV Host and author. He served 14 years as a detective in the violent crimes unit of the Shreveport Police Department, with an unprecedented 100% confession and solve rate as lead investigator. His law enforcement career includes investigations in the following areas: sex crimes, burglary and armed robbery, and narcotics. He is also known for his role as the TV host and narrator on the true crime series Murder Chose Me. He is a certified and experienced hostage negotiator. S.W.A.T. certified, he has done extensive undercover work. The 25-year law enforcement veteran also is a distinguished firearms expert, a certified investigator of officer-involved shootings, and has military police and corrections certification. He holds a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Louisiana State University and is a United States Navy war veteran of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. He is the author of "Things My Daughters Need to Know: A Cop and Father's View of Sex, Relationships and Happiness" and "No Place for Race: Why We Need to Address Economic and Social Factors That Are Crushing Us Every Day."
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.