Armed and Dangerous: Memoirs of a Chicago Policewoman

Armed and Dangerous is police officer Gina Gallo's critically acclaimed memoir of her sixteen-year odyssey, beginning with day one at the Police Academy and spanning assignments on Chicago's West Side, one of the most dangerous areas in the city.

The notorious cops' code of silence is broken as the author recounts incidents in the West Side projects: shoot-outs, ambushes, and what it feels like to kill a man—just four days out of the Academy.

The stories told are sometimes tragic, sometimes f...