They Wished They Were Honest : : The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption / / Michael Armstrong.
In fifty years of prosecuting and defending criminal cases in New York City and elsewhere,Michael F. Armstrong has often dealt with cops. For a single two-year span, as chief counsel to the Knapp Commission, he was charged with investigating them. Based on Armstrong's vivid recollections of thi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The beginning
- 2. Staffing and funding
- 3. Lurching Into Action
- 4. Gabe
- 5. Teddy and Xaviera
- 6. The Great Meat Robbery
- 7. George
- 8. Some Rough Spots
- 9. Leuci
- 10. Toody and Muldoon
- 11. Batman and Robin
- 12. Waverly Logan
- 13. Super Thief
- 14. The Freshman
- 15. Phillips at Work
- 16. Problems
- 17. Tank and Slim
- 18. Phillips, in High Gear
- 19. The Dynamic Duo-Again
- 20. The Eve of the Hearings
- 21. The Public Hearings: Phillips's Testimony
- 22. The Public Hearings: Droge, Logan, Tank and Slim, Burkert, etc.
- 23. Serpico
- 24. Aftermath
- 25. Phillips-Epilogue
- 26. Special Prosecutor
- 27. Reflections
- Index