So after 25 years, why did you decide to retire from Chicago Police Department?

I wasn't necessarily ready to leave, but I started realizing how much of my daughter's life I was missing.

And it is a thankless job.

I worked in one of the busiest areas in the city.

And every six weeks, we call it up week because you're on call for murders.

All of the murders happen at three o'clock in the morning.

That's just the way it happens.

When did you decide to write that and why did you want to write a book?

Something that's not real funny though, but you talk about in your book is when you were 11 years old, you had a traumatic event as a child there in Chicago, right?

I did.

And it's funny because I didn't talk about this.

Unfortunately, my mom has passed away now and I never told her actually what happened.

She knew about part of the event because she called the police.

But when I was 11 years old, I came home from gymnastics and my mom wanted me to go to the grocery store, which was a common thing.

I would always run out to the store to get snacks, dinner, whatever.

How long did it take you to get to where you're actually investigating homicides?

And it had something to do with the fact that he didn't have his shoes on at the time? Is that, is that what it was?

Yeah.

So this, uh, young lady was, uh, coming home.

It was right around Christmas time, and unfortunately she encountered this person who later told us, this offender said that he was looking for a victim.

So what he was doing is he was looking for what he would, you know, perceive as someone w- weak that he could overpower.

So he did see this girl walking down the street, and he made a decision.

You know, he zoomed in on her, and he said, "Okay, if this girl turns right down the alley, she's gonna be my victim." And these are hers word- his words, not mine.

Uh, is there, in your experience, is there a correlation between, like, say, a robbery and a rape? Is it, is it just, is it just a turn of the page?