Uniformed Silence (Paperback)
Warren Pulley
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Add to basketPaperback. I was a street cop in the city of angels - but the stories I carry aren't about the glory. They're about the becoming.I graduated from LAPD Academy Class 12-94 - the last class to fully train and graduate at the storied Elysian Park Academy, nestled just above the city, where recruits ran with the skyline at their back and doubt in their bones. I came in with military discipline, Air Force under my belt, but nothing quite prepares you for police probation in Los Angeles. Not the uniform. Not the badge. Not even the gun.What follows in these pages isn't myth making. This isn't a revenge tale, a vendetta, or a plea for sympathy. This is a record. A testimony of what it means to step into a role that's larger than you - and try to grow into it without being consumed by it.I'm not here to expose the LAPD. I'm not here to defend It blindly either. I'm here to share how one man - flawed, hopeful, eager, scared - learned what it meant to wear the blues in one of the most volatile cities in America. And how I came to love the men and women who walked beside me through calls that went sideways, pranks that broke tension, and moments where all we had was each other.There's laughter in these pages. And fear. There are loyalty and heartbreak. There's the smell of burnt rubber and cheap coffee. And there's South Central - raw, radiant, dangerous, unforgettable.I wrote this not because I have all the answers, but because I lived the questions. And maybe, just maybe, you'll see something in these stories that helps you understand the person behind the badge - or the one staring back at you in the mirror.This is Uniformed Silence. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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I was a street cop in the city of angels - but the stories I carry aren't about the glory. They're about the becoming.
I graduated from LAPD Academy Class 12-94 - the last class to fully train and graduate at the storied Elysian Park Academy, nestled just above the city, where recruits ran with the skyline at their back and doubt in their bones. I came in with military discipline, Air Force under my belt, but nothing quite prepares you for police probation in Los Angeles. Not the uniform. Not the badge. Not even the gun.
What follows in these pages isn't myth making. This isn't a revenge tale, a vendetta, or a plea for sympathy. This is a record. A testimony of what it means to step into a role that's larger than you - and try to grow into it without being consumed by it.
I'm not here to expose the LAPD. I'm not here to defend It blindly either. I'm here to share how one man - flawed, hopeful, eager, scared - learned what it meant to wear the blues in one of the most volatile cities in America. And how I came to love the men and women who walked beside me through calls that went sideways, pranks that broke tension, and moments where all we had was each other.
There's laughter in these pages. And fear. There are loyalty and heartbreak. There's the smell of burnt rubber and cheap coffee. And there's South Central - raw, radiant, dangerous, unforgettable.
I wrote this not because I have all the answers, but because I lived the questions. And maybe, just maybe, you'll see something in these stories that helps you understand the person behind the badge - or the one staring back at you in the mirror.
This is Uniformed Silence.
Warren Pulley is the creator of the SOLEN: The Eden Archive series - a four-book, hundred-year science fiction saga following the founding of humanity's first permanent civilization on Mars.
His work sits at the intersection of hard science, human psychology, and the question of what we owe to the worlds we build.
The series is narrated in part by SOLEN, the mission AI who recorded everything Carter and Alina never knew was being watched. Book One, NovaSeed: Eden Rising, is available now.
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