Pre-Owned On Being a Cop: Father & Son Police Tales from the Streets of Chicago (Hardcover) 1938686861 9781938686863

Ever Wonder What It?s Like to Be a Cop? Father and son authors, Jim and Jay Padar, know well what it?s like. Both have served as Chicago police officers with forty-five years of combined experience between them. On Being a Cop describes the adrenaline-pumping, heart-pounding moments of the authors? life-and-death experiences fighting crime, the emotional tolls that the job takes upon them and their families, the value of a support system that includes chaplains, partners, the public, and the moments that make doing the job all worthwhile. Fifty-three stories capture every aspect of a police career from being a rookie to working the graveyard shift, chasing criminals, playing fireman, visiting the morgue, and investigating heinous crimes. Whether it?s Jim dealing with riots in Chicago?s streets following Martin Luther King Jr.?s assassination or Jay coping with the loss of officers close to him to suicide, readers will experience the tears, tragedies, and triumphs of being a police officer. In these pages, wrongs will be righted, lives saved, hearts broken, and friends, family, fatherhood, and faith will give these men the strength to go out and do it all over again the next day. So climb into the blue and white squad car, buckle your seatbelt, and see life on the streets of Chicago from a cop?s eyes.