A Year In Bushwick: A Cops Story

A Year In Bushwick: A Cops Story

A Year In Bushwick is set in the 1970's a time before Facebook and cell phones. A time when what happened on the street stayed on the street. It is the story of a cop and the squad he worked with in the strangest precinct in New York City. Headquarters once advised a Captain who had been assigned as Commanding Officer that the 83 Precinct was a cross between a Foreign Legion Outpost and a leper colony. <br /> This book follows Sean Quigley a cop in the 83 precinct for one year from New Year's Eve at Times Square to Brooklyn and back to Times Square. It is the fictional memoir of a fictional cop assigned to that precinct. You will meet the strange cops that inhabited that precinct, the nurses from a local hospital and those who lived in the confines of the command. They were he last of the cowboy cops. <br /> The story covers the gamut of human emotion and experience. There is tragedy, horror, sex, violence, boredom and a good deal of comedy. If you decide to read this don't expect the Choirboys Wambaugh is a better writer. <br /> I am not, repeat not the protagonist of this story. The characters in this book are characters they don't represent any real people. Some who were there at the time may think I remember him or her but five different people may see five other different people in the same character. At least I hope so. If they do then the characters ring true. If you decide to read this I hope you enjoy it. <br />