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Street Stories: The World of Police Detectives PDF

440 Pages·2005·1.16 MB·English
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STREET STORIES The World of Police Detectives S T R E E T S T O R I E S T h e W o r l d o f Police Detectives RO B E R T J AC K A L L h a r v a r d u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s Cambridge,Massachusetts,andLondon,England 2005 Copyright©2005byRobertJackall all rights reserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Jackall,Robert. Streetstories:theworldofpolicedetectives/RobertJackall. p.cm. ISBN0-674-01709-9(cloth:alk.paper) 1.Criminalinvestigation—NewYork(State)—NewYork—Casestudies. 2.Detectives—NewYork(State)—NewYork. I.Title. HV8073.J23-2005 363.25′097471—dc22 2004060793 FormystudentsatWilliamsCollege Withgreatappreciationandaffection CONTENTS 1. IntheField 1 2. LookingforShorty 20 3. WhentheBallFell 63 4. TheGirlinthePark 93 5. SquadWork 126 6.StreetWork 175 7. WaitingforChocoláte 208 8. TracingthePast 251 9. ADeathintheField 292 10. TheLongArmoftheJob 335 Notes 373 Acknowledgments 412 Index 416 STREET STORIES The World of Police Detectives

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Detectives work the streets--an arena of action, vice, lust, greed, aggression, and violence--to gather shards of information about who did what to whom. They also work the cumbersome machinery of the justice system--semi-military police hierarchies with their endless jockeying for prestige, procedu
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