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Cops under Fire

Name: Cops under Fire
Author: Larry McShane
ISBN: 9780895263575

by Larry McShane

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Overview

In Cops Under Fire, veteran Associated Press writer Larry McShane probes a series of high-profile cases involving police officers who used force in the line of duty to protect themselves or their fellow officers. Striving to uphold the law, these officers now find their motives questioned, their reputations destroyed. Worse, these officers are finding themselves in court, charged with corruption, manslaughter, or murder. Cops Under Fire tells the stories of decorated New York City Detective Zack Zahrey, who was wrongly accused of murder, conspiracy to distribute cocaine, and firearms trafficking; Detroit police officers Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn, who became the center of a political firestorm when Detroit Mayor Coleman Brown improperly charged them with bigotry and murder; Newark officer Robert Leaks, who became the focus of protest from a "citizen's activist group" in the business of heroin distribution; and Blake Hubbard, who was indicted for murder after pulling the trigger to save his partner's life.

Synopsis

The odds are that the overwhelming majority of America's police officers will never be forced to use their weapons in the line of duty. But when it happens, it often destroys the lives of these officers--and those around them