Good Cop, Bad Daughter: Memoirs of an Unlikely Police Officer - Lynch, Karen
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Good Cop, Bad Daughter's Karen Lynch was raised by a counter-culture tribe in summer of love Haight-Ashbury, where she was taught to despise "The Man." But when the San Francisco Police Department was court ordered to hire women, she found herself compelled to prove to the world that women could cut it as cops, a betrayal that caused her police-loathing mother to brand her a Nazi. Lynch reflects on her difficult childhood with her bi-polar mother, and comes to realize her chaotic past unwittingly provided the perfect foundation for her chosen career.

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Good Cop, Bad Daughter's Karen Lynch was raised by a counter-culture tribe in summer of love Haight-Ashbury, where she was taught to despise "The Man." But when the San Francisco Police Department was court ordered to hire women, she found herself compelled to prove to the world that women could cut it as cops, a betrayal that caused her police-loathing mother to brand her a Nazi. Lynch reflects on her difficult childhood with her bi-polar mother, and comes to realize her chaotic past unwittingly provided the perfect foundation for her chosen career.
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Karen Lynch is a native San Franciscan. After graduating from UC Berkeley, she joined the San Francisco Police Department in 1981. She lives in Novato with her husband and their three children, including Kyra, who was the subject of an essay that won the 2012 Notes & Words national essay contest. Her memoir, "Good Cop, Bad Daughter," is the story of how growing up with a bi-polar mother trained Karen to be a cop.