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Randy Sutton is a Field Lieutenant with the Las
Vegas Metropolitan Police Dept and a thirty year
police veteran. He began his career as a Patrolman
with the Princeton Borough Police Dept. and left that
department holding the rank of Detective. In 1986 he
joined the Las Vegas Metro Police and served as a
Patrol Officer, Field Training Officer, and Narcotics
Detective before being promoted to Sergeant. He held
that rank for 13 years while being assigned to Patrol,
Field Training, Community Oriented Policing,
Investigations, Task Force operations and Supervisor
of Advanced Training. He currently serves with the
Northwest Area Command. He is one of the most
decorated Police Officers on the department holding
commendations for “Valor”, Meritorious Service
“Community Service Award” and several “Lifesaving”
awards.

After September 11, 2001, Las Vegas Police
Sergeant Randy Sutton began soliciting writing from
law enforcement officers-his goal being to bridge the
gap between the police and those they serve, with a
book that offers a broad and thoughtful look at the
many facets of police life. Hundreds of active and
former officers from all over the United States
responded: men and women from big cities and small
towns, some who had written professionally, but most
of whom were doing so for the first time. The result is
True Blue, a collection of funny, charming, exciting,
haunting stories about murder investigations, missing
children, bungling burglars, car chases, lonely and
desperate shut-ins, routine traffic stops, officers killed
in the line of duty, and the life-changing events of
September 11. Here, officers reveal their emotions as
they recount the defining moments of their careers.
Some of the stories include:Two cops' desperate
search for a missing child feared kidnapped - The
revival of the one-month old baby who was shot in the
face in a drive-by shooting - A patrol officer's dramatic
showdown with a hostage-holding gunman -
On-the-scene details of rescue and tragedy during
the 9/11 terrorist attacks

A Cop's Life

Dramatic, moving, and disturbing true stories from a
cop's twenty years on the street 'Cops put an
impassive face to the world because they have to, but
they all feel things deeply and profoundly, even if it
doesn't show and even if they can't express it.'
-Excerpt from A Cop's Life. The twenty stories that
comprise A Cop's Life are not standard issue police
stories. Along with shoot-outs, hangings, drownings,
and murders, portraits of young cops who've seen too
little and old cops who've seen too much is
uncensored introspection, chilling confessions of
Sutton's near suicide, complicated moral dilemmas
and situations that challenge our perception of what it
means to be a police officer.

True Blue