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Author Pegues, Corey, author.

Title Once a cop : the street, the law, two worlds, one man / Corey Pegues.

Publisher New York : Atria Books, 2016.

ISBN 9781501110498 (hardback)
1501110497 (hardback)
9781501110504 (paperback)
1501110500 (paperback)



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Edition First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Description viii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm
Contents 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 --Epilogue: 198 and Murdock.
Summary "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.
Subject Pegues, Corey.
New York (N.Y.). Police Department -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Subject(S) Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation -- New York (State) -- New York.
Civic leaders -- New York (State) -- New York.
Biography & autobiography -- Law Enforcement.
Biography & autobiography -- Criminals & Outlaws.
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781501110498 (hardback)
1501110497 (hardback)
9781501110504 (paperback)
1501110500 (paperback)