Larry Murphy

Blackjack and Jive-five Larry Murphy

Blackjack and Jive-Five is a humorous, bittersweet, adventure-filled story of heroes and villains, of laughter and despair??of a white police sergeant and his primarily black police unit dealing with internal acculturation phenomenon while also performing traditional police functions. This book boldly and constructively addresses one of the most controversial social issues of Twentieth Century America. Blackjack and Jive-Five chronicles a determined, positive response to cultural confrontation, organizational attitudes, and discrimination.

The true story of Blackjack and Jive-Five, though generously filled with humor and human drama, immerses readers into the day-to-day pressures experienced by a unit of black cops and their white sergeant confronting a white-dominated police culture. Go to a different kind of "office" with these exceptional street cops??to a cluttered vacant lot where they plan their "capers." Accompany the officers as they carry out their plans and return to the "office" with them for joyful celebration and critique. More importantly, know and feel the hearts and minds of a group of street cops also dealing with severe social circumstances. Readers of Blackjack and Jive-Five truly become part of a very special, history-making police unit?excitedly, joyfully, although sometimes painfully so.