Edward W. Conlon (born 1965) is an author and former New York Police Department (NYPD) officer.
The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death. . . ' Other cops wrote their blood type.
On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light.
I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them.
Dion Boucicault
Matt Maher
Chaz Bono
Ryan Zimmerman
Stefan Edberg
Miguel Quinteros
John G. Rowland
Jim Larranaga
Janel Parrish
Larry Lujack
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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