Once a cop : the street, the law, two worlds, one man / Corey Pegues.
Pegues, Corey, author.
2016
HV7911.P424 A3 2016 (Mapit)
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Title Once a cop : the street, the law, two worlds, one man / Corey Pegues.
Author Pegues, Corey, author.
ISBN 9781501110498 (hardcover)
1501110497 (hardcover)
9781501110504 (paperback)
1501110500 (paperback)
9781501110511
1501110519
Published New York : Atria Books, 2016.
Language English
Description viii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number HV7911.P424 A3 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.2092 B
Summary "New Jack City meets Serpico in this provocative memoir of a crack dealer-turned-decorated NYPD officer--a timely reflection on the complex relationship between the police and the communities they are meant to protect. Corey Pegues has lived on both sides of the law. At the height of the 1980s crack epidemic, he was a teenager hugging the street corner, selling dope for the notorious Supreme Team gang and watching drugs decimate his stable, working-class neighborhood almost overnight. After a botched murder attempt on a rival gang member, Corey, the only member of his family to graduate from high school, knew he had to get out. Barely eighteen, with two kids by two different women, Corey left under cover of night to enlist in the US Army. After several years in the military, the police academy was a breeze. In this riveting memoir, Corey takes us into his rise from the rough streets of Queens through the ranks of the NYPD, living and working in the nation's most violent neighborhoods. What is daily life truly like for urban youth in America? What is the one problem endemic in law enforcement that's even more dangerous than rampant racism? There aren't many people who understand both sides of the story the way Corey does. As war rages throughout our nation between police and communities of color, Pegues tears down the blue wall to discuss the discriminatory practices he faced within the NYPD and talks candidly about the distrust between law enforcement and the people. Corey doesn't hate the police. He loves the badge. And, he believes, it's his duty to challenge the culture of racism, silence, and arrogance in the NYPD today"-- Provided by publisher.
"Former cop sets the record straight in this controversial memoir about his youth selling crack in the 80s with one of NYC's toughest gangs and later rise through the ranks of the NYPD to become a community leader"-- Provided by publisher.
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Part One · Hustler
1. Suburban Sugar Hill
2. Loosies
3. The Golden Age
4. Life
5. The Perfect Drug
6. In Full Effect
7. The Block Gets Hot
8. Welcome to the Supreme Team
9. Safety Transfer
10. Prince
11. Cracked Out
12. Dog Years
13. I Decided I Would Kill Him Myself
14. Please, Please, God, Please
15. I Have to Do Right. I Have to Do Good.
Part Two · Cop
16. Old Habits
17. TNT
18. #900570
19. The Most Racist Thing I've Ever Seen in My Life
20. Not Exactly Starsky & Hutch
21. The Biggest Gang in New York
22. That Cool Cop
23. Doing Something
24. Climbing the Ladder
25. The Worst Thing I Ever Did as a Cop
26. Yo, I'm the New Sergeant
27. Theft of Service
Part Three · Executive
28. Across 110th Street
29. Thug Life
30. Black Friday
31. Everybody Is Looking for You to Fail
32. Broken Windows
33. Daybreak
34. Leadership
35. The Blue Wall of Silence
Insult to Injury.

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