Uncovering the Untold Struggles Behind the Badge: A Riveting Journey Through Duty, Marriage, and Family
Reviewed by Ben Winderman
Terrence P. Dwyer’s The Badge Between Us: Duty, Marriage, and Family (Bloomsbury Academic; Feb. 2026) courageously confronts institutional problems embedded in the culture/career of policing. Dwyer, retired from the New York State Police after a 22-year career reports upon “the job’s” inherent hypocrisies, its underworld actors, its dysfunctional bureaucracy, and the inescapable injuries this work inflicts.
