Behind the Texas Badge is a big, beautiful coffee table book. Doug and Carol Hutchison spent a year traveling more than 15,000 miles around Texas to photograph and interview 103 Texas law enforcement officers and to bring to light the officers’ personal stories, stories that range from heartbreaking to hilarious. Officers from large and small departments, city and rural, from sheriffs to rookie officers, including mounted patrol, bicycle patrol, Texas Game Wardens, Texas State Park Police, school district officers, and police reserves, told their stories. The book also features images of badges, shoulder patches, patrol vehicles, police motorcycles, and engraved firearms, but the stories are the book’s heart and soul, while the photography offers a beautiful tour of Texas and those who protect its citizens.