To understand Kozlowski's behavior,we should look at the events that shaped his personality.He spent his early years in humble circumstances.He grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Newark, New Jersey He said he was the son of a Newark cop turned police detective.It was only after he police officer in Newark or anywhere else.However,his mother did work for the Newark Police Department as a school crossing guard.His father,in actuality,was a wheeler-dealer who was a practiced deceiver and an effective persuade.He had a strong personality but,for the most part,kept his misdeeds to little white lies.