In this effective memoir about three generations of New York City policemen, Brian McDonald chronicles a hundred many years of dedication, disillusion, heroism, and tragedy behind the blue wall of silence that separates a cop from the rest of the planet. His grandfather, Thomas Skelly, entered the department in 1893, when the NYPD was small a lot more than a brutal gang of organized enforcers and Tammany Hall a corrupt political machine that could make or break an honest cop’s occupation. His father Frank’s profession would span Globe War II by means of the 1960s, taking him from street cop to squad commander of the Forty-initial Precinct. Better identified as “Fort Apache”, it was a area from which handful of cops emerged whole. His brother Frank McDonald, Jr., went on to turn into a decorated officer, waging an undercover war on drugs and crime.
From turn-of-the-century Brooklyn to the South Bronx in the 1970s to the bedroom communities of upstate New York, My Father’s Gun combines a rare and intimate household story with turbulent social background.The day-to-day reality of daily life as a police officer comes by way of with unglamorous clarity in this scrupulously honest memoir. Yes, the author recounts some thrilling stories of cases cracked and perpetrators nailed. But in recounting a few relatives’ careers in the New York City Police Division, Brian McDonald spends considerable time delineating private relationships (notably with their robust-minded wives) and their progress (or lack of it) within a bureaucracy as hidebound as any other branch of the civil service. McDonald’s grandfather refused to participate in Tammany Hall corruption, and as punishment was continuously reassigned for the up coming 14 a long time his father burned out as commander of the toughest precinct in the South Bronx. And his brother’s troubled trajectory reflected the turbulent atmosphere of the post-Knapp Commission department, held in low repute by law-abiding citizens as it grappled with an more and more brazen criminal population. The writer is candid about his ambivalent emotions toward his tight-lipped father and the ethos that sees a world “made up of only two camps–cops and negative guys,” but grateful for Dad’s gift of an Underwood typewriter, which led him to journalism. McDonald’s gift in return is a book that portrays policemen neither as heroes nor villains, but as recognizable human beings. –Wendy Smith
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