The man who wrote this book was once a damn good cop. Edward F. Droge, Jr. made headlines with his testimony about police corruption before the Knapp Commission in New York. Now he has decided to tell the whole blunt, hard-nosed truth about himself and the system that made him and broke him. This is the story of his career from the beginning to the end. It is the story of fighting crime in the savage ghettos, of collaring hookers on the nighttime streets, of breaking up murderous family quarrels and risking life and limb in hair-raising chases and gun duels. It is also the story of pocketing money and bending regulations and losing every ideal. And finally it is the story of how one cop's undercover activities implicated his fellow officers. If you want to know what it is to be a big city policeman in America today, read this book.
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This review is from: The patrolman: a cop's story, (A Signet book)
I'd read "The Patrolman" years ago, lost my copy and got another one on-line. Still a good book and an insider's account of corruption in the NYPD in the 1960s and 1970s. Unfortunately the author got caught up in the corruption very early in his career and swam with the current. When he decided to get out, that's when he was caught taking bribes by undercover informants. "The Patrolman" had to have come out on the heels of Peter Maas' excellent book, "Serpico". The difference was that Serpico was tenaciously honest to the point of nearly getting killed and ultimately being ostracized by his brother cops because he broke their code of silence about corruption. Mr. Droge was an decent cop who allowed himself to just go along with the corruption. Caught, Droge then cooperated with the authorities to try and root out further corruption in the department. In the end, he too was ostracized by the brotherhood. A cautionary tale for sure----faced with the same situation would the reader take Serpico's path or Droge's path? Serpico became a cultural hero, Droge, who to his credit later achieved great success in education (www.drdroge.com), was forgotten.
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Excellent Cop Story!,
By Gregg Cadwallader Sr. (Springfield, MO USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The patrolman: a cop's story, (A Signet book)
The book is a good read and is well written. It tells the tale of the author's rise and fall in the NYPD. The story begins near the "beginning of the end" for the author's career, and then chronicles his career from learning the craft of being a police officer, to unfortunately learning with it the error of corruption that permeated a number of big-city police departments of the day as well.
This book is not a self-serving attempt to grab the reader's pity, but a bare-bones, "cards on the table" tell-all, where the author reveals all about the corrupt system that made him and broke him. At the end, while the author's career finds a short-lived measure of redemption, the man himself has been all too thoroughly destroyed by ironically, the same corrupt system that created him. This is the only book that I have ever owned that I wanted to read, and then re-read (except the Bible). As a matter of fact, I had loaned my original copy to a cop buddy of mine and never got it back. So, I found a used copy in good condition online and paid over twice the cover price just to be able to own it again. The author, not content to stop at merely informing the reader, gives plenty of action to keep you turning pages into the wee hours of the morning.
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