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The Making of a Cop
Following 860 men and women through a typical training regimen in the New York City Police Academy and then into the streets of New York, the author reveals how young civilians are transformed into street-smart fighters
- GenresNonfictionCrime
Hardcover
First published January 1, 1991
About the author
Harvey Rachlin
18 books2 followersHarvey Rachlin is an award-winning author, journalist, and composer whose work spans narrative nonfiction, investigative history, music, and true crime. He is the author of multiple books published by major houses including Henry Holt, Harper and Row, and Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster, with titles that have been translated into Korean, Spanish, German, and Polish and selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club, History Book Club, and Encyclopedia Britannica Home Library.
His book Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones and Einstein's Brain was adapted into the long-running History Channel series History's Lost and Found, which broke ratings records, won the Cine Golden Eagle Award for Best History Series, and is now broadcast in countries around the world. His work has been endorsed by President Gerald R. Ford, Aaron Copland, and numerous other cultural and political figures, and he has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs including The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder and The Sally Jessy Raphael Show.
As a journalist, Rachlin has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, The Jerusalem Post, Publishers Weekly, and many other publications. He is also a winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism.
His most recent nonfiction work, Color War: Dinshah P. Ghadiali's Battle with the Medical Establishment over his Revolutionary Light-Healing Science, co-authored with Steven M. Rachlin, MD, uncovers one of the most dramatic and suppressed stories in American medical history, a visionary scientist whose healing art was validated by hundreds of physicians before being destroyed by institutional power, and whose science contemporary research is now beginning to vindicate.
His book Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones and Einstein's Brain was adapted into the long-running History Channel series History's Lost and Found, which broke ratings records, won the Cine Golden Eagle Award for Best History Series, and is now broadcast in countries around the world. His work has been endorsed by President Gerald R. Ford, Aaron Copland, and numerous other cultural and political figures, and he has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs including The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder and The Sally Jessy Raphael Show.
As a journalist, Rachlin has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, The Jerusalem Post, Publishers Weekly, and many other publications. He is also a winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism.
His most recent nonfiction work, Color War: Dinshah P. Ghadiali's Battle with the Medical Establishment over his Revolutionary Light-Healing Science, co-authored with Steven M. Rachlin, MD, uncovers one of the most dramatic and suppressed stories in American medical history, a visionary scientist whose healing art was validated by hundreds of physicians before being destroyed by institutional power, and whose science contemporary research is now beginning to vindicate.
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September 3, 2023
This book here; this fun read is going to be worth your time. What you've got here is your run-of-the-mill "becoming an NYPD officer" story. If you're a fan of the genre, you've read similar accounts...
The writing is tight and journalistic. It reads a little like a novel, a little like a long form magazine feature. It's perhaps a bit dated and was written at a time when cops and the job itself had more respect than it does today. Not as many young people today aspire to be police officers yet it can still be a rewarding and fulfilling career. This book would be an excellent title for people thinking about this as a job. High schoolers would enjoy this too.
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Motivated (and, well, not so much) human some way or another, lands in, applies to, gets shangahai'd for the NYPD. Goes in wild eyed and idealistic, realizes it's tough and random and unfair and dangerous and hits the streets, still gung-ho and idealistic. FTO and/or other humbling circumstances disabuses them of these notions and threatens to jade them... almost but not quite and then [cue triumphant music] they overcome the adversity and NYPD demons to end up as Lt. Alhamberhool in charge of that prestigious unit on the Upper Eastside. Except for that dirty cop, Morales-Cagapalos, the Bad Apple with the unfortunate last name. He should have never been a cop in the first place. He wasn't cut out to be On the Job.
The writing is tight and journalistic. It reads a little like a novel, a little like a long form magazine feature. It's perhaps a bit dated and was written at a time when cops and the job itself had more respect than it does today. Not as many young people today aspire to be police officers yet it can still be a rewarding and fulfilling career. This book would be an excellent title for people thinking about this as a job. High schoolers would enjoy this too.
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July 18, 2008
Not as good as "The Making of a Detective"
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