Where the Sun Didn't Shine

<p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;background:white;'><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>It's about time. This is the first true story about a much-decorated African American New York city police officer.</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><br></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>In the 1960s in Harlem NYC</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'></span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'> street crime was rampant on all levels. To most of the city's </span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>two</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'> million blacks and Hispanics conditions were worse than ever. The</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>se conditions</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'> existed due to white racism over the years that was entangled with political and social greed.</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>The </span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>p</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>olitical powers </span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>then</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'> h</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>e</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>ld a meeting in city hall. Included in this meeting were the mayor police commissioner and the</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'> </span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>then</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'> </span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>congressman of Harlem.</span></p><p style='margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white;'><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>As a result of that unprecedented meeting they reached out for volunteers from very young black and Hispanic officers in search of motivated dedicated committed aggressive and fearless officers letting them be aware that there will be a high probability that some may be killed due to their all-out approach in eliminating gun runners and street narcotics conditions. Of 383 </span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>who </span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>volunteered</span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'> </span><span style='font-family:Arialsans-serif;color:black;'>20 were handpicked and called the New York City Police Department PEP Squad. Bennett Hinds was one of the members of this elite group. Three were killed and one crippled for life. None of the 17 survivors were ever promoted.</span></p>