On the Street Doing Life

by Anne Keegan

Book Overview

What Readers Say: "'On the Street Doing Life,' captures the gritty reality that cops face working dope on the west side of Chicago. No cop did it better than Mike Cronin and I'm proud to say I had the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1425989764
• ISBN13: 9781425989767
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

CHICAGO STREETS

I REALLY ENJOYED THIS BOOK. I GREW UP READING CHICAGO NEWSPAPERS AND REALLY 'KNEW THE REPORTERS' AND HOW THEY WROTE AND ALL THE PEOPLE WHO MADE CHICAGO THE GREAT PLACE IT IS. IF YOU LOVE CHICAGO YOU WILL LOVE THIS BOOK.

THE REAL WEST SIDE STORY

Officer Cronin's story is, by turns, inspriational and horrifying. The writing is surely supra-saline. The descriptions of conditions and life on Chicago's West Side are so realistic, one wishes this were a work of fiction. Alas, it is all too true, God help us. Recommendation: Buy it if you can. Read it if you dare.

Life in a World most of us will never visit.

What a Book! It shows the seamy underbelly of the City. Reading This book made me wonder how we can ever break the cycle of drugs and the lifestyle that goes with that that is perpetuated from generation to generation. I think of the little kids sitting on a urine soaked mattress in a "smoke house" watching their parents smoke and/or sell crack and the bigger kids being lookouts for $100.00 a day. No wonder they don't want to go to school. I don't know what the answer is and there is no answer in the book. This is a social workers nightmare. It reminds me of Dante's Inferno where at the entrance into Hell it says "Abandon Hope All ye Who Enter Here". How do they break out? I don't think they want to break out. They are captives of their habit. Policemen like Cronin can only keep the problem from spilling over into other communities but can never stop what is going on in this community. It is a picture of a subculture that most of us will never visit. It makes me feel there is no solution for this problem.