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For 38 years, Jim Simone patrolled Cleveland's Second Police District, a drug-plagued area with one of the highest violent crime rates in the nation. Called Supercop by the media (a nickname he dislikes) , Simone generated headlines and public interest on a scale not seen since Eliot Ness searched for Cleveland s Torso Murderer in the 1930s.Simone worked primarily in traffic enforcement the riskiest assignment for a cop and never shied from danger. He was stabbed, clubbed, run over, and shot. He traded gunfire a dozen times, killing five people in the line of duty. All of his shootings were ruled justifiable. Driven by a ferocious work ethic, Simone's arrest rates were 500 to 600 percent higher than the department average. Despite Simone's numerous shoot-outs, he is an advocate of police restraint.