On the Street Doing Life

“Raw, Moving, Funny and Sad – this intimate look at the life of a gangcrimes cop, and the world he moved through on **Chicago**’s **West Side**,is unlike any other book you’ve ever read.”This is the unique story of one of **Chicago**’s most legendary cops.Police officers see more than their share of life and death, certainly morethan most of us see in our normal work-a-day world.But Mike Cronin had seen more even than most cops. After his best friendwas killed in **Vietnam**, he voluntarily enlisted in the Marines and askedto be sent to **Vietnam**. He had been out on 110 combat missions when onehot December morning he stepped on a land mine and, in one horrendous blast,lost his left foot, his eyesight and his dream of ever becoming a Chicago police officer.Cronin was given the “last rites” by a priest after gangrene set in onhis foot. When the priest asked if he had anything to confess, he answered,“Father … it’s not like I’ve been to any wild parties lately.”** **Cronin was an extraordinarily stubborn young man, with a remarkable workethic and a competitive zeal that made him fight back, and it was thatresolute nature, a few good breaks, one of them the fact that his visioneventually returned, that helped him become the first applicantwithout a foot to ever be accepted onto the Chicago Police Department.** **The son of working class Irish immigrant parents, Cronin was born andraised in St. Gertrude’s parish on **Chicago**’s north side. “This was apart of urban **America** that no longer exists. Singular ethnic patchesthat made up the quilt of Chicago where everyone went to mass on Sunday andsat down to dinner before 4 p.m; where you still said grace at dinner andwaited for your father to pick up his fork before you dove into thepotatoes; where mothers stayed home and wore an apron and fathers left forwork early and carried their lunch and worked overtime and on their days offto pay the tuition at a Catholic school; a neighborhood that was crowded andblue collar, but not poor; clean and thrifty, with a savings account, butnot much in it -- no stocks and bonds portfolios for dad. Their stock wasput into their kids so they'd have it better.”** **This was the world Cronin returned to from **Vietnam**, convinced hislife was over. This remarkable and provocative story of how he rebuilt thatlife and went on to become a gang crimes specialist who commanded therespect of both those who fought crime, and those who committed it , isinspirational.** **Anne Keegan, a popular reporter, writer and columnist for the ChicagoTribune for more than 25 years, respected for writing the kind of storiesthat championed the “little guy” and celebrated the human spirit,accompanied Cronin for more than a year on his forays into alleys andgangways and drug dens, into the chaotic and crime-ridden world most peoplewould never willingly seek out, to capture the remarkable moments of hopeand despair, dignity and degradation depicted in this book.** **In the unforgettably honest, poetic and profane language of the street,jam-packed with the crude and colorful conversation of real people, shereveals through a riveting series of short stories and vignettes a realworld filled with good and bad actors.** **In the midst of all this is the cop they call “Cronie,” serving andprotecting, hunting and arresting, striving to walk the fine line one mustwalk to be a street cop, the balancing act between toughness and fairnessand the ability to enforce the law without being brutal, to not take thingspersonally and to play by the rules when the criminals don’t have to, ordon’t want to.** **After 3 decades, he rose to head the Chicago Police Department’s twomost elite units – gangs and narcotics. This is the story of one good cop.And the humanity he brought to and found on his city’s troubled streets.

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Hardcover : 199 pages
Title : On the Street Doing Life
Language : English
ISBN-10 : B003UNLIFK
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