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Search - Cop Hunter: The Shocking True Story of Corrupt Cops and The Man Who Went Underground to Stop Them

Cop Hunter The Shocking True Story of Corrupt Cops and The Man Who Went Underground to Stop Them
Author: Vincent Murano, William Hoffer

A former NYPD detective presents an account of his undercover investigations for the NYPD Department of Internal Affairs, offering a searing expose of police corruption in New York City, its magnitude, and its impact. — They were thieves, hit men, con artists, drug dealers. They were also cops. Bad cops. Vinnie Murano, who was especially adept at... more » assuming the guise of a thief, hit man, con artist, and drug dealer, was the NYPD's most famous "good" cop, devoted to tracking the "bad" ones down. His story is a terrifying revelation of corruption, thievery, and cover-ups at the heart of America's biggest police department. The good news is that Vinnie Murano carried on the work that began twenty years ago, when Frank Serpico went undercover to expose the shocking level of graft in the New York City Police Department, and continued in 1979 when Bob Leuci created a national sensation with his "Prince of the City" revelations. The bad news is that after all the commissions, the investigations, and the trials, things have changed. They've gotten worse! Murano spent more than a decade assigned to the Internal Affairs Division of the NYPD. His undercover career began with his assignment as bodyguard to Bob Leuci, but that experience was tame in comparison to the dangers he uncovered working with the IAD (known among other cops as the "rat division"). Risking his health, his sanity, even his life every day, he went undercover in the streets of New York, What he discovered was terrifying: not just cops on the take, but cops who mug and steal -- even cops who kill. More terrifying still was the realization that the "Blue Wall," the "Code of Silence" by which all cops live, protects corrupt policemen even when crimes are committed. Even when the crime is murder. Murano's major cases include such extraordinary stories as those of -- The Lauro Brothers, Gregory DiCapua, Tomlin Coleman, and many more equally as corrupt and exciting. These cases, and numerous others, were broken by Murano during his years as an undercover investigator. Each posed its own level of difficulty, and each its own particular danger. What they all have in common, however, was the final frustration of realizing that though these men were criminals, they would never pay the full price for their crimes. Even in disgrace, the blue uniform provided protection for those who wore it.

ISBN-13: 9780671669591
ISBN-10: 0671669591
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3.8 stars, based on 7 ratings

Publisher: Pocket
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Tammy H. (stardust1) reviewed Cop Hunter: The Shocking True Story of Corrupt Cops and The Man Who Went Underground to Stop Them on 10/31/2023 + 44 more book reviews

This book is about a police officer whose job is to investigate criminal activites in NYPD police force. The crimes that he investigates mainly deals with officers who were involved with organize crime. It is very well written and keeps a good flow.

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