The Patrolman A Cop's Story Author:Edward F. Droge Jr. The man who wrote this book was once a damn good cop. Edward F. Droge, Jr. made headlines with his testimony about police corruption before the Knapp Commission in New York. — Now he has decided to tell the whole blunt, hard-nosed truth about himself and the system that made him and broke him. This is the story of his career from the beginning to... more » the end. It is the story of fighting crime in the savage ghettos, of collaring hookers on the nighttime streets, of breaking up murderous family quarrels and risking life and limb in hair-raising chases and gun duels. It is also the story of pocketing money and bending regulations and losing every ideal. And finally it is the story of how one cop's undercover activities implicated his fellow officers.« less