Behind the badge: her story : her story
(2021)

Nonfiction

eBook

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Antoinette James, 2021
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9798201555597 MWT15422689, 8201555597 15422689
LANGUAGE
English
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In the Spring of 2002, thirty-one-year-old Antoinette Bostic, an African American woman graduates from the Detroit Police Academy Class 2002D as Officer Bostic - Badge #3641 to serve and protect one of the most dangerous cities in America; Detroit. In lieu of the struggles of raising three daughters on her own, identifying with the dangerous perceptions of being a threat as a black female wearing a badge and carrying a gun, Antoinette's childhood dreams of being a Detroit Homicide Detective solving cold cases were on the verge of becoming a reality to make her mark as a police officer. Assigned to Vice, working undercover as a prostitute on Detroit's ruthless streets, rookie cop Antoinette Bostic navigates through the seedy sex trafficking underworld when she's swept into a cyclone of scandal, political corruption, and the cross-hairs of an infamous stripper party at the mayor's Manoogian Mansion. Focused on survival, she discovers the truth of a relentless stalker's sadistic plan of attack and that the good old Boys Club and Blue Code of Silence bleed beyond the badge into politics and the church-challenging her faith and focus. Detroit is on the brink of ruin under the reign of notorious mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. A city once rich in industry, capitalism, culture, and faith institutions are now in need of redemption and salvation-and so is Antoinette, a Detroit Police Officer fighting to save her family and her life. Who's going to save her?

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