Bad Cop

Episode 33

7th May 2009

Paul Bacon is the author of Bad Cop, a memoir about his brief stint in the NYPD, a career for which he was monumentally ill-suited.

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Paul Bacon is the author of “Bad Cop,” a memoir of his time in the New York Police Department. After September 11th, Bacon felt a calling to community service, but he was too old for his first choice, the fire department. He signed up for police academy instead, but he quickly found that he was ill-suited to the job.

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