Most police officers enter their profession with the of intentions, never planning to use or tarnish the badge for personal gain. However, a few lose their way and like a rotten apple spoiling the barrel; these Fagins can use their wiles to betray the public trust. It's so easy to take that first seemingly harmless step to that darker side of the blue uniform and become a lost cause. Police officers are just ordinary people who start out in a dangerous and honorable career and sometimes lose their way from that, just being human beings and subject to that frailty. The fictitious characters depicted in these pages were just that, and through the story, the reader comes to understand how they can stray from the path and fall into the clutches of greed and corruption, something they once swore to fight. The vast majority of law enforcement officers would never intentionally subscribe to intertwining their occupation with a criminal endeavor but must always keep aware of how easy it is to fall.