NYPD A City and Its Police

Name: NYPD A City and Its Police
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ISBN: 9780805067378

ISBN-10: 080506737X

ISBN-13: 9780805067378

Edition: Revised

Authors: James Lardner, Thomas Reppetto

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NYPD details episodes as fresh as the shootings of unarmed men that have triggered mass protests against Mayor Rudy Giuliani. It also tells of forgotten but no less compelling dramas such as the Becker-Rosenthal case, in which a police lieutenant went to the electric chair, and the death of Joe Petrosino, a New York City detective gunned down on the streets of Palermo, Sicily, after his cover was blown by the police commissioner. James Lardner and Thomas Reppetto, who know the police world from the inside, throw today's headlines into vivid relief by taking us back more than 150 years through a succession of immigrant waves, long hot summers, and career-destroying crises and scandals.…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 8/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

James Lardner, a writer for The New Yorker & The Atlantic Monthly, has written cover pieces for The New York Times Magazine (including one on the NYPD). He is the author of "Fast Forward: Hollywood, the Japanese & the VCR Wars" & "Crusader: The Hell-Raising Police Career of Detective David Durk".



Introduction: Ghosts on Patrol



A Cry from the Bottom of the Hudson



"I Might as Well Carry a Club"



The Finest



The Great Detective



"Down with the Police"



The Glorious Retreat



"So Many Races Up Against You"



"Just a Little Lieutenant"



The NYPD Goes to War



Shoofly



The Celebrity Cops



Battle in the Lead



On the Pad



Twenty and Out



"Dave, Do Something!"



The Rediscovery of Crime


A Note on Place-Names


Sources


Acknowledgments


Index