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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.



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Robert Sberna

Award-winning journalist Robert Sberna started his career as a police and courts reporter at daily newspapers in the Midwest. In recent years, his work has appeared in The Washington Examiner, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Crain's, Neoconomist, Ohio Magazine, and numerous alt weeklies and Web-based magazines.

His first book, "House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell," was named the 2012 Foreword Reviews INDIFAB "Book of the Year" for true crime.

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