Word: copping
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...Financially speaking, your writing has been far more lucrative than your job as a cop. Has that affected your relationship with others on the force...
...grew up in a cop family and was always around cops and heard cop stories. Hanging around them I found that these were people who really loved their jobs. I could have probably found a job in Hollywood or teaching or something which would be close to writing but not quite. I thought it might be better to get a job which had nothing to do with writing so I would be free to write what I wanted...
...Were your friends and family surprised by your decision to be a cop...
They were pretty surprised alright. There’s no one else that I know who became a cop after Harvard. But mostly my friends saw that I was certainly happy and they were happy...
...cop, that’s easy—if you get mugged in the South Bronx I’m the guy who tries to help you. As a writer, I’m not too big on writerly responsibilities. I think a writer’s only responsibility is telling the truth as they see it, and even then that’s only for non-fiction writing. I wrote Blue Blood for myself as a way to remember what we do as cops in a bad neighborhood in a big city—it?...