Kicking the Habit Ch 03
Corruption is an addiction. It’s the first taste of any filthy pleasures, for a price. It is not the mere delight in sin that makes a dirty cop, a dirty cop. It’s knowing you can get away with it again, and again, and again. Drugs. Sex. Power. Any cop on the straight and narrow avidly avoids these temptations, knowing that once you give in’once you taste the sweet syrup of indulgence’it’s almost impossible to give it up. I’m not the cop who said no. Eighteen years in the goddamned force....