vice control

Chronicles the history of the first major crusade to cleanup New York City of crime after Reverend Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, a Presbyterian minister, went out into the city in diguise and gathered inforamtion against the corrupt police department.

Allison Moore's account of her life as a Hawaii vice cop who became addicted to meth which eventually led her to a life of prostitution, torture, and prison. She found the strength to escape her addiction and during her rehabilitation she began to redeem herself by apologizing for the many deceptions (among them faking major illnesses) she perpetrated with her police collegues and other friends, as well as her own family.

Looks at turn-of-the-century New York with its prostitutes, casinos, all night bars, and how police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt attempted to clean up the city.

"SHARDS is Allison Moore's first-person account of her life as a Hawaii vice cop who became addicted to meth, deceived her entire police department, and led her to a life of prostitution, torture, prison, and, ultimately, rehabilitation and redemption"--.