Armed & Dangerous

This critically acclaimed memoir of one female cop is “an exceptionally well-written account of life in the Chicago Police Department from 1982 to 1988” ( Richmond Times-Dispatch ). Beginning with day one at the Police Academy and spanning assignments on Chicago's West Side, one of the most dangerous areas in the city, Armed & Dangerous chronicles Gina Gallo's sixteen-year odyssey as a police officer. The notorious cops' code of silence is broken as the author recounts incidents in the West