What is behind the love-hate relationship Americans have with law enforcement? COPS: THE MEN & WOMEN BEHIND THE BADGE takes readers through a major police academy & then follows a class of officers through five years of street patrol. The nine 'rookies' range from cops in their twenties to an ex-New York Lieutenant starting over at age 44. Sari Horwitz, Crime Reporter for The Washington Post, calls it "A must read for anyone interested in law enforcement; you won't want to put it down." CBS affiliate KOLD-TV: "Will make you laugh & cry, but most of all it will show that men & women behind the badge are real people." Anthony Bouza, former Minneapolis Police Chief: "The sights, sounds & smells of urban policing; a masterful effort." Criminal Justice International: "The first nonfiction book of the 1990s that takes the reader on street patrol." Available through Horizon Press, Baker & Taylor, Quality Books, Koen Book Distributers.