The Cops Are Robbers: A Convicted Cop's True Story of Police Corruption (Hardcover)

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Like the proverbial hooker who cries rape, Clemente, a bent cop, voices protest: he was not accorded the deference due an officer during investigations into allegations linking him to a bank heist but, rather, was treated as a suspect. On the job he himself was always humane, an attribute he stresses perhaps to temper his admission of personal corruption and which also may underpin his charge that corruption is indigenous to law enforcement. One year into his 30-year sentence for robbing a bank in his Massachusetts hometown of Medford in 1980and while awaiting trial for a scam involving civil service examsthis former police lieutenant here throws himself on the reader's sympathy, aided by Stevens, a book editor, with arguments that his five brethren in the robbery, two of them junkies, turned out to be less than honorable, and that his mistress, a "manipulator" who testified against him, played him for a "sucker." Clemente's wife and son have only cameo roles in his memoir, the roles one senses they are assigned in his life as well. Photos. 30,000 first printing; $30,00 ad/promo.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 225 pages
• Publisher: Quinlan Press (MA) (July 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933341709
• ISBN-13: 978-0933341708
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,171,078 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars This book has a empty feeling, June 30, 2001

By	Johnathon Cajacob (Eagan, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cops Are Robbers: A Convicted Cop's True Story of Police Corruption (Hardcover)

When I first picked this book up I thought it would offer insight into the dark world of police corruption. Well, I was wrong. This book only shows what one individual's thoughts and actions were at the time of their crimes. This book could have been excellent had it showed how corruption exists inside a police force in general. instead the author chose to write from an individual standpoint.