The Badge Between Us - Duty, Marriage, and Family

The Badge Between Us is a raw, unfiltered account of policing that tracks the impact of secondary trauma and moral injury, infused by instances of organizational betrayal and police officer corruption. It is a first-person account of author Terrence P. Dwyer''s final year as a New York State Police Investigator, with flashbacks from a 22-year career spent responding to and investigating violent crime and organized criminal gangs, and its impact upon him and his family. Through the lens of a final gang investigation and the subsequent quintuple murder of a young family, Dwyer delves into the workaday world of a homicide investigator.>

List of contents

Author's Note
Prologue
Part I: The Job
1. Married to the Job
2. Excelsior
3. Line of Duty
4. Close Calls
5. Mobbed-Up
6. Funhouse Mirrors
7. Bad Mood Rising
8. After 9/11
Part II: The Gang
9. Partners
10. Crazed Killas Mafia
11. The Bosses
12. Integrity Issues
13. Enterprise Corruption
14. Ambush
15. Night Terrors
16. Hit Squad
17. Dope Rodeo
18. Stray Bullets
19. Manhunt
20. Officer Down
Part III: The Fire
21. Family Massacre
22. Big T and D
23. Meeting Sam
24. Final Shift
25. Recovery
Acknowledgements
About the Author

About the author

Terrence P. Dwyer, a retired trooper and investigator from the New York State Police after a 22-year career, is currently a university professor of legal studies at Western Connecticut State University and an attorney consulting on law enforcement issues. He is the author of Homeland Security Law: Issues and Analysis (2024).

Product details

• Authors: Terrence P Dwyer, Terrence P. Dwyer
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 05.02.2026
• EAN: 9798881842550
• ISBN: 9798881842550
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Law Enforcement, Criminal law & procedure, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Mental health services, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Police & security services, Police and security services, Police law & police procedures, Police law and police procedures, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Coping with / advice about mental health issues, Coping with / advice about mental health issues or topics