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How can it feel to be in a high-speed car chase? What is it like to capture someone? What do cops really think about the residents they serve? Nearly everyone has thought about what it's prefer to be a police officer, but no civilian really understands what happens on the job. 400 Things Cops Know shows police work on the inside, from the point of view of the standard cop on the whip - a profession that can range between rewarding to bizarre to terrifying, all within the span of an eight-hour transfer. Written by veteran police sergeant Adam Plantinga, 400 Things Cops Know brings the listener into life just how cops experience it - a life of hazard, frustration, infrequent triumph, and lots of grindingly hard boring work. In a laconic, no-nonsense, dryly humorous style, Plantinga tells what he's learned from 13 years as a patrolman, from the everyday to the unique - how to learn instantly when a suspect is holding a tool or is going to harm, how to kick a door down, how to drive in a car chase without recklessly endangering the public, why you should always carry smokes, even if you don't smoking (offering a smoke is the ultimate way to lure a suicide to protection), and what to do if you find a severed limb (don't wear it ice - you need to keep it dried out.) 400 Things Cops Know deglamorizes police work, exhibiting the gritty, tense, sometimes disgusting truth of life on patrol, from the opportunity of illness - criminals don't always practice good health - to the physical, mental health, and emotional toll of police work. Plantinga shows what cops connection with death, the legal system, assault, prostitution, medicine use, the cultural causes and outcomes of crime, alcoholism, and more. Sometimes heartbreaking and often amusing, 400 Things Cops Know can be an eye-opening revelation of what life on the whip is absolutely all about.
