Police Stories: Street Cop to Sergeant: True Crime, Chaos & Life as a Big City Cop
O'Donnell, Patrick
Synopsis "Police Stories: Street Cop to Sergeant: True Crime, Chaos & Life as a Big City Cop"
On September 29, 2002, Milwaukee Police Officer Patrick O'Donnell lost all faith in humanity. He was first on scene at 22nd and Brown for a shooting call. The victim's head looked like a pumpkin. O'Donnell found the victim's ear in the bushes. It wasn't a shooting—it was worse. Twelve kids, ages 10 to 18, beat him to death with bats, a baby stroller, and a shovel over a $20 drug debt. A ten-year-old jumped on his head like a trampoline. Nobody helped. Nobody called the police. That was seven years into O'Donnell's career as a Milwaukee cop. He had eighteen more years to go. From Wall Street Journal-featured author and Cops and Writers podcast host Patrick O'Donnell comes an unfiltered memoir of his years as a street cop and field training officer before he was promoted to sergeant. This isn't a sanitized TV procedural—these are the middle-of-the-night calls from the parts of the city nobody talked about or cared about. In Police Stories: Street Cop to Sergeant, you'll ride along on: A pole-dancing copBeing in a life-and-death fight with a convict, with only a recruit as your backup Responding to a man with a .44 magnum pistol in his girlfriend's mouth The legend of The Satin Doll and her tavern A partner who wanted to be a firefighter more than a cop Trying to convince a naked guy not to jump off a bridge Being a human toboggan down a flight of stairs and sustaining a lifelong back injury because of it The drunk detective who shot himself in the ass These are true stories from twenty-five years behind the badge. The dark humor that kept O'Donnell sane. The partners who became family. The victims he couldn't save. The personal cost of seeing things no human should experience.Sometimes the most unbelievable stories are the ones that actually happened. Book Two of the Police Stories series. See how a rookie turns into a veteran cop on his way to promotion to sergeant—and the price he has to pay.