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How does it feel to be in a high-speed car chase? What is it like to shoot someone? What do cops really think about the citizens they serve? Nearly everyone has wondered what it's like 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 viewpoint of the regular cop on the beat - a profession that can range from rewarding to bizarre to terrifying, all within the course of an eight-hour shift. Written by veteran police sergeant Adam Plantinga, 400 Things Cops Know brings the listener into life the way cops experience it - a life of danger, frustration, occasional triumph, and plenty of grindingly hard routine 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 exotic - how to know at a glance when a suspect is carrying a weapon or is going to attack, how to kick a door down, how to drive in a car chase without recklessly endangering the public, why you should always carry cigarettes, even if you don't smoke (offering a smoke is the best way to lure a suicide to safety), and what to do if you find a severed limb (don't put it on ice - you need to keep it dry.)
400 Things Cops Know deglamorizes police work, showing the gritty, stressful, sometimes disgusting reality of life on patrol, from the possibility of infection - criminals don't always practice good hygiene - to the physical, psychological, and emotional toll of police work. Plantinga shows what cops experience of death, the legal system, violence, prostitution, drug use, the social causes and consequences of crime, alcoholism, and more. Sometimes heartbreaking and often hilarious, 400 Things Cops Know is an eye-opening revelation of what life on the beat is really all about.
- Sales Rank: #2996 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-06-09
- Released on: 2015-06-09
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 424 minutes
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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
Entertaining but also thought provoking
By JZS
I picked up "400 Things" after reading a Wall Street Journal article which mentioned that Lee Child and other crime writers were fans. Child called it "...a mix of hard-boiled autobiography and street-wise poetry." I don't know that I would go that far but I did enjoy the book.
Written by a thirteen year veteran patrol officer, the book is a collection of stories, observations, little known facts and personal musings told in an affable, straight forward style. I think the author is fairly representative of police officers, if more articulate than most. It may seem controversial in light of current events (This review is written on 11-29-14) but no attempt is made to whitewash police or vilify the citizenry. It merely provides perspective.
Divided into nineteen chapters with 11 to 31 "things cops know", this is a very easy read, with no section or tale running more than a few of pages. People frequently ask if a book contains foul language. Uh, of course this does- generally in the form of quotes not the author throwing it in randomly. I doubt that anyone really expects inner city police work to involve a lot of "Gee Whiz" and "Gosh Darn".
While there are stories and situations that are grim, depressing and even shocking, I did have several "laugh out loud" moments. For example:
"I once heard a coworker observe that my partner Ramon, a fine man but not especially fleet of foot, 'runs like Jed Clampett'."
This is a difficult review to write simply because there is so much to say about this book. It would definitely be a great book club selection. From Plantiga's thoughts on societal issues to the role of the media, I guarantee you will want to discuss it.
Although I would recommend this to everyone (but your favorite TV cop show will never be the same), I can't quite say that I love it. It was an easy book to set aside and return to days later. It was an impulse purchase for me and I do feel some pangs for the loss of a couple of other books I could have purchased for the price. Also, there were a few things that simply annoyed me. For some reason, paragraphs are lifted from the text and inserted into boxes with larger type as though you might have missed it the first time. This appears to be an attempt to make the book longer without adding any value or substance. And, at least in the kindle version, there are formatting problems in the last chapter where entire sentences are repeated.
Aside from these issues, I liked this book a lot and strongly recommend it.
49 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
The book pulls you through. Not a dead page ...
By Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
The book pulls you through. Not a dead page in the whole thing. Chases, gunshots, investigations, take-downs, PR dilemmas, hookers, thugs and drugs--they're all here as you would expect, but so is much you wouldn't, including plenty of razor wit and blooming irony. This is the kind of book you want to carry through the house and call out to listeners: "Hey, listen to this!" Especially if you're the author's Dad. Way to go, Son!
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
400 Reasons to buy this book
By R. BULL
400 THINGS COPS KNOW by Adam Plantinga is another book from Quill Driver Books that will join Books, Crooks and Counselors by Leslie Budewitz and others in my personal reference library. Plantinga spent thirteen years as a patrol officer, which he boiled down to observations about life as a street cop, which are practical and blunt when they aren’t funny, heart-rending or chilling.
As a writer, my next manuscript with a police officer as character will be checked against this book to see if I have avoided the errors that pop us so frequently when the uninformed try to write about the uniformed. Do you know how Columbine changed the responses of police departments all over the United States? I do because I read this book and it is just the sort of detail that a cop might drop into conversation with a citizen. It is also the sort of detail that adds a sense of authenticity to a piece of writing.
About the importance of teamwork the author writes, “…if some citizen feels the need to challenge you on why it took seven officers to take the lone suspect into custody the answer is because eight weren’t available.” I remember a news conference in which a police spokesperson was asked why so many shots (Sorry, I don’t remember the exact number.) were fired by a group of officers at a gunman who first opened fire on a police unit. The spokesperson answered in effect — eventually you run out of bullets.
Why do cops toss their cups of coffee out the windows of their squad car when they get a high priority call? Can a car with a powerful engine outrun a cop car? (You may notice I ask questions but I don’t provide answers.) 400 THINGS COPS KNOW provides answers as well as giving hints about how an experienced officer might answer question since an experienced officer wrote the book. I highly recommend this book.
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