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In a cop's world, the one truth is making it through your tour of duty alive everything else is just a matter of interpretation. Armed only with an unflinching eye, Daniel Smith invades that world to discover the truths, examine the shadows, and interpret the culture of those who hold the line. A must-read for anyone interested in the real story behind the blue. --Gina Gallo, author of Armed and Dangerous: Memoirs of a Chicago Policewoman
Taking on no easy task, Smith gives us a compelling journey into the hearts and minds and even the souls of those urban soldiers we call cops. As real and wild and fascinating as the streets they travel. --Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune and WGN Radio
Turn off CSI and see what police-work is really about. Daniel Smith has successfully opened the door to the private entrance of the Chicago Police Department. On the Job is an emotional and heartfelt journey inside one of America s oldest and most respected police departments. This story is one that only a member of the family could tell. --Lee Lofland, author of The Book of Police Procedure and Investigation
Taking on no easy task, Smith gives us a compelling journey into the hearts and minds and even the souls of those urban soldiers we call cops. As real and wild and fascinating as the streets they travel. --Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune and WGN Radio
Turn off CSI and see what police-work is really about. Daniel Smith has successfully opened the door to the private entrance of the Chicago Police Department. On the Job is an emotional and heartfelt journey inside one of America s oldest and most respected police departments. This story is one that only a member of the family could tell. --Lee Lofland, author of The Book of Police Procedure and Investigation
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The police stars, CPD clothes, and cop cars we see every day.
The Chicago Police Department is a mythical and legendary law enforcement unit as well as a closed-door society. In On the Job: Behind the Stars of the Chicago Police Department, Daniel P. Smith draws the curtain to reveal the officers and their personal stories. Smith, an award-winning journalist and the product of a Chicago Police family, explores the work/life juxtaposition of the men and wome--mothers and fathers, realists and idealists, cynics and consolers--who don the Chicago Police star.
From officers on the frontlines of a bloody battle over gangland turf to those at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, from those who battle personal demons to those who celebrate the adrenaline of the chase, On the Job peers into a world of individuals trying to simultaneously balance work demands with the demands of their own private lives. Far from the imaginative portrayals sprouting from American televisions, On the Job shares the honest and sincere stories of those who carry the Chicago Police star alongside their life's ambitions, responsibilities, and realities.
It's the hearts, scars, and families behind the uniform we never see.
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