Street Warrior
The True Story of the NYPD’s Most Decorated Detective and the Era That Created Him

An 8 hour unabridged audiobook. The stories this gentleman must have... it left me wishing for more. Which naturally begs a sequel (which I hear is in the works). I liked this book.......more

I saw some raw footage on YouTube of the Bronx in the early 1980s. It legit looked like a war zone. Huge lots were just filled the rubble of old buildings. The streets were littered household junk: old bed frames; rusted shopping carts; bags of trash; assorted debris. One might guess the sidewalks t......more

Ralph Friedman was a cop in the Bronx in the 1970s, when basically the whole borough was on fire (or might as well have been and no one was going to put it out.) Even Manhattan was in poor shape in that decade, and the Bronx probably had it the worst in terms of crime and poverty. Ralph had grown up......more

I’ll be the first to admit, I don’t know much about the NYPD, New York, or policing in the 70s and 80s. My previous exposure had been to firefighting classics such as Dennis Smith’s Report from Engine Co. 82. Also growing up in the 80s and 90s, I was well aware of New York’s reputation with regard to......more