The Battle Behind The Badge

Rarely is a police officer given an organized crime number, but the IRS branded three in Kansas City. Captain Robert B. Heinen was exposed as one of the three during a senate subcommittee investigation of the IRS. Thus began an investigation of Heinen that lasted for seven years, the same years that he was methodically knocking out various rackets controlled by the Mafia; the underworld organization the IRS acussed him of consorting with. In this candid, unusual book, Captain Heinen reveals his remarkable life of nearly three decades on the Kansas city Missouri Police Department. After serving four years in the navy during WWII he joined the KCPD and became disillusioned with the thieves and grafters among the officers. The Battle Behind the Badge is a personal account of a man who tried to hold to the ideals he learned while growing up in a typical American rural town, where simple values such as honesty are the rule, and a man's word is his bond.