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... am completely puzzled as to why this book received good editorial comments
I am completely puzzled as to why this book received good editorial comments. This is a book filled with, at best, dated ideas/myths/stories about policing. Every cliche in the world shows up, from the troubled corrupt white cop with the black girlfriend who happens to be a junkie. To the "prince of the city" idea where corrupt cops are somehow, somewhere deep in their tortured soul benevolt and care about the community.
This book is, just simply, crap. I am 40 year police professional who ran IA in a major US police department. I have investigated, arrested, fired, jailed corrupt cops for years. There are good books, fiction and non, on this topic. This is not one.
