Chicago Street Cop

Amazing True Stories from the Mean Streets of Chicago and Beyond

By: Pat McCarthy

Narrated by: Bentley Michaels

Surviving a career in law enforcement involves a considerable amount of natural instinct, skill, luck, and intellect. Fortunately for Pat McCarthy, he possessed all of these, some more than others, at different times.

In Chicago Street Cop, you will:

• Learn what it feels like to walk through the wreckage of the worst aviation disaster in America’s history—collecting bodies and body parts.

• Go behind the scenes as McCarthy, wired by the FBI, is bribed by an organized crime figure to protect a secret gambling den in Chinatown.

• Get an insider’s view into the life of a big city undercover cop buying drugs in a violent housing project.

• Ride along with McCarthy’s FBI squad as they try to stop a gang war.

• Listen about what it’s like to be a SWAT team member in a two-day standoff with a cop killer.

With a gritty and no-holds-barred narrative, Chicago Street Cop is a vivid reminder of the risks and choices that members of law enforcement face daily as they keep the general public safe from harm.

©2015 Pat McCarthy Productions, Inc. (P)2025 Pat McCarthy Productions, Inc.

The detail and insight into things only a Cop would know.

Couldn't turn it off. A real insight into what it's like to be a Chicago Cop. Listened to the entire thing in 2 days.

A man's passion for law enforcement

“If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”

Pat McCarthy proves this quote correct. "I would have been a cop for nothing," states the author. McCarthy became a third generation police man, continuing the family tradition now passed onto Pat's son. McCarthy shares stories of his dangerous career in law enforcement.

"Chicago Street Cop" is honest and provocative.

Great stories shared about cpd

Great, listen on hard to believe stories about being a Chicago police officer. Thank you to all of CPD for what you do

These are good stories

I enjoyed this stories from an X Chicago cop...I know most of the places in these stories..