Author: David BeattiePublisher:
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Languages : en
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Book Description
A Trooper's Tale is the story about a young man whose childhood dream was to become a State Trooper. As he grew, the goal of teaching elementary through high school supplanted that earlier dream. We are taken through the author's early hardscrabble roots, in a home with no running water, chopping wood for heat in the winter and sub-zero visits to the outhouse. From High School graduation to auto assembly line work, the Author heads off to college to earn a teaching degree. After being laid off from his first teaching job, the old dream resurfaces and the Author gets accepted to the State Police Academy. Survives the grueling training, graduates, and is offered an assignment to a northern Midwest Michigan State Trooper outpost. This book tells the story of his experiences on the job back in the days during the turbulence of the post Vietnam era, the joy of serving, the challenges, the inner politics, the pressures, the suspense, and the heartbreaks of facing violence and death on a daily basis. From policing, to the more lucrative insurance business, back to teaching, A Trooper's Tale takes you on a ride inside the world of perpetrators and victims, villains and heroes in a culture that ultimately set the table for the controversy surrounding policing today in this post- George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, and the Thin Blue Line era that characterizes policing today.