My Father's Gun: One Family, Three Badges, One Hundred Years in the NYPD
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (831 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0452279240 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Three generations of police officers in one family -- humanizing the men and families behind the badge Kiwiwriter This is not a book of "police war stories." This is a story of three generations of New York City police officers in a single family, and is about how the life of being a police officer impacted on the three generations and the family at large.You learn from the start about what it w. arthur cullen said Having served in the NYPD I found the book fascinating. Having served in the NYPD I found the book fascinating. Amazingly McDonald was able to capture the essence of the job from a family's perspective. I relived my years in the NYPD that I couldn't fully appreciate "Having served in the NYPD I found the book fascinating" according to arthur cullen. Having served in the NYPD I found the book fascinating. Amazingly McDonald was able to capture the essence of the job from a family's perspective. I relived my years in the NYPD that I couldn't fully appreciate 25 years ago. A fabulous read for those that who were on the job and thos. 5 years ago. A fabulous read for those that who were on the job and thos. Great Book I grew up in Pearl River, NY. (I do NOT know the author). My father retired in 1987 after 37 years with the NYPD. Since I left the NYC area over 20 years ago, it was fascinating to stumble across this work. I have often wondered when someone would address this insular culture from a
His brother Frank McDonald, Jr., went on to become a decorated officer, waging an undercover war on drugs and crime.From turn-of-the-century Brooklyn to the South Bronx in the 1970s to the bedroom communities of upstate New York, My Father's Gun combines a rare and intimate family story with turbulent social history.. His father Frank's career would span World War II through the 1960s, taking him from street cop to squad commander of the Forty-first Precinct. In this powerful memoir about three generations of New York City policemen, Brian McDonald chronicles a hundred years of dedication, disillusion, heroism, and tragedy behind the blue wall of silence that separates a cop from the rest of the world. His grandfather, Thomas Skelly, entered the department in 1893, when the NYPD was little more than a brutal gang of organized enforcers and Tammany Hall a corrupt political machine that could make or break an honest cop's career. Better known as "Fort Apache", it was a place from which few cops emerged whole
And his brother's troubled trajectory reflected the turbulent atmosphere of the post-Knapp Commission department, held in low repute by law-abiding citizens as it grappled with an increasingly brazen criminal population. McDonald's grandfather refused to participate in Tammany Hall corruption, and as punishment was constantly reassigned for the next 14 years; his father burned out as commander of the toughest precinct in the South Bronx. Yes, the author recounts some exciting stories of cases cracked and perpetrators nailed. The day-to-day reality of life as a police officer comes through with unglamorous clarity in this scrupulously honest memoir. The author is candid about his ambivalent feelings toward his tight-lipped father and the ethos that sees a world "made up of only two camps--cops and bad g