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Title: 330 pages of anecdotes
Review: In my opinion, this book is next to useless. The book is suppodded to tell "what's it really like to be a cop", but it doesn't deliver. There are lots of stories told by Chicago cops, but these stories are really just anecdotes; the shortest are just one or two sentences long. You just can't tell much in two sentences.Another problem is, the book is arranged in topics. In practice this means that a cop after cop is telling you that "you don't forget your first corpse", and this goes on page after page, until the author moves on to another topic. It would be much more interesting, if there were about two or thee dozen stories in the book, each 5-10 pages long that you could read like a short story. But the way this book is written, it simply is not interesting to read, and you don't get much from reading it.
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