Captain Harold McCormick, Suffolk County Police Department (ret.), began his 30 year law enforcement career in 1960.  Harold McCormick is the author of Street Cop: The Dark Side of Suburbia.

According to the book description of Street Cop: The Dark Side of Suburbia, “This book is unique - it takes the reader into the world of one of America's leading suburban police departments as officers tackle major cases: murders, cop shootings, prostitution, grave robbing, rapes and high-speed pursuits. The police officers in the book tell of the savage murders of children, sniper attacks on innocent victims, of serial killers on the prowl, brutal line of duty police officer deaths and the stretched thin blue line that separates these men and women from the soccer games, backyard barbecues and swimming pools of suburbia.

Most of all, the stories reflect the courage, tenacity and dedication of the police officers who lived them - and, in some cases, suffered tragic results. Suffolk County is home to some of the more spectacular crimes in recent memory. These include the "Amityville Horror" case, the "Satanic" murder of a teenaged boy in Northport, the ghouls who stole skulls from mausoleums, the nuns with their novel defense against attackers, the state investigation of police corruption that shook the department to its foundation and many more.”