By James Wagner, Patrick Picciarelli, Don Imus
The writer takes readers in the back of the badge and into the day-by-day drama of operating long island City's hardest jobs within the city's hardest precinct--before civilian overview forums, ahead of gentrification, and earlier than political correctness. James "Jimmy the Wags" Wagner walked those streets from the Nineteen Sixties to the Nineteen Eighties and observed all of it.
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The nun with Maureen continued to jabber, as did the cops with me. I didn’t look back. When we got to the bar, I downed three quick scotches. Needless to say, I wasn’t very good company, and I bowed out early. I went home to a darkened house and waited for the phone to ring. I waited in the living room until sunrise. No call. I never heard from Maureen again. For a long time I gave every nun on the street more than a passing glance, wondering if I was about to meet an old friend. I did the same every time I passed a hooker.
MY LIFE IN THE NYPD: JIMMY THE WAGS 43 I looked at him. ’’ I still didn’t know what he was talking about and gave him a blank stare. One of the cops grabbed my arm and yanked. ’’ I bumped against the locker behind me. They lined up, me behind them. ’’ Everyone drew their service revolvers. ’’ Arms extended toward my locker. What the fu—? ’’ A deafening volley of shots exploded in the cramped locker room. My ears rang and my eyes crossed. My locker had been ventilated with bullet holes. Cops from other squads who were changing erupted into applause.
At home he was Dad, but I couldn’t imagine calling him that at work. I wasn’t comfortable calling him Joe either, and the hugs I got from him stopped at our front door. So I didn’t call him anything. ’’ We saw each other briefly during the change of tours. He’d pull up in the radio car with Dave, toss me the keys, wink, and say, ‘‘Be careful out there,’’ before he’d vanish inside the station house to sign out. Since we worked in opposing squads, I saw him for extended periods only when our days off coincided.
