Police Stories: The Rookie Years

True crime, chaos and life as a big city cop.

My first week as a rookie cop, I had to decide whether to pull the trigger on a man running at me with a butcher knife. He’d just killed his brother over the last hot dog.

That was my introduction to policing in Milwaukee.

An unfiltered memoir of rookie years on Milwaukee’s streets during the crack wars. This isn’t a sanitized TV procedural, these are the middle-of-the-night calls from the parts of the city nobody talked or cared about.

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