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Episode: REFLECTIONS FROM THE PIT -- MICHAEL BERISH -- UNDERCOVER VICE COP IN MIAMI WITH GREAT STORIES!
Description: Not just another collection of rehashed police stories with shootouts, car chases, and damsels in distress, Reflections from the Pit, contains individual, quirky, off-center characters. The stories focus on basic character flaws while dealing with social issues of the day: racism, hangings from police cruisers, sexism, affirmative action, prejudice, drug-dealing cops and corruption, homelessness, segregation, and police brutality. Berish uses his intimate knowledge of "the Pit" to bring these tales alive.
This book pulls no punches; it shows you the dark side of police work: the good, the bad and the ugly (warts and all), both the...