{"product_id":"police-stories-patrick-odonnell-9798252129853","title":"Police Stories: The Rookie Years: True Crime, Chaos \u0026 Life as a Big City Cop","description":"\u003cb\u003eMy first week as a rookie cop, I had to decide whether to pull the trigger on a man running at me with a butcher knife. He'd just killed his brother over the last hot dog.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThat was my introduction to policing in Milwaukee.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \u003cb\u003eWall Street Journal-featured author\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCops and Writers\u003c\/i\u003e podcast host \u003cb\u003ePatrick O'Donnell\u003c\/b\u003e comes an unfiltered memoir of rookie years on Milwaukee's streets during the crack wars. This isn't a sanitized TV procedural-these are the middle-of-the-night calls from the parts of the city nobody talked or cared about. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Police Stories: The Rookie Years, you'll ride along on: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- The Thanksgiving stabbing with a carving knife embedded in a man's eye\u003cbr\u003e- The sweet elderly widow who held a cocked .38 to a rookie's back\u003cbr\u003e- Breaking every rule to help a stranded mother find shelter\u003cbr\u003e- The all-city assist where three men died at The Blues Oasis\u003cbr\u003e- A dying man's last words: \"Scooby-Doo shot me\"\u003cbr\u003e- The father who bit off part of his daughter's nose\u003cbr\u003e- The sixteen-year-old who was executed for his sneakers\u003cbr\u003e- Coming within inches of being shot by a fellow officer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese are true stories from twenty-five years behind the badge. The dark humor that kept O'Donnell sane. The partners who became family. The victims he couldn't save. The personal cost of seeing things no human should experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSometimes the most unbelievable stories are the ones that actually happened.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook One of the Police Stories series. Start where it all began.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patrick O'Donnell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798252129853\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.45d","brand":"Patrick O'Donnell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48623649751295,"sku":"9798252129853","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/police-stories-patrick-odonnell-9798252129853","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}