Gina Gallo
Autor(a) de Armed and Dangerous: Memoirs of a Chicago Policewoman (Illinois)
Obras de Gina Gallo
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
Membros
Resenhas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Membros
- 39
- Popularidade
- #376,657
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 4
Gallo is a fine writer, and this memoir is funny and sad by turns. She captures the first strange days of the rookie, the daily maneuvering of politics (something women must pay especially close attention to if they want to survive), and the numbing horror of seeing evil day in and day out. Eventually her cop career ended due to a suspect beating her with a bat. Her partner, a rookie, ran out the door without firing a shot, leaving Gallo to shoot the man who was trying to kill her. By that time, it seems she was suffering from PTSD, something cops in the big city cannot escape.
But most of all, I think, her memoir is full of compassion for her fellow compatriots, the women and men out in the trenches who are basically dealing with scum every day. The stories got a little wearing after a while, but if she could live it, I could read it. I can only imagine what she went through when she served the city of Chicago. After reading this, I'm looking at Chicago politics in a much more skeptical light.
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