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Blue on Blue : an Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops by Charles Campisi, former chief, NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau, with Gordon Dillow is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Blue on Blue : an Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops about?
One of the most authentic and consistently illuminating portraits of police work ever, Blue on Blue describes the fascinating inner workings of the worlds largest police force and Chief Charles Campisis unprecedented two decades putting bad cops behind bars. From 1996 through 2014 Charles Campisi headed NYPDs Internal Affairs Bureau, working under four police commissioners and gaining a reputation as hard-nosed and incorruptible. When he retired, only one man on the 36,000-member force had served longer. During Campisis IAB tenure, the number of New Yorkers shot, wounded, or killed by cops every year declined by ninety percent, and the number of cops failing integrity tests shrank to an equally startling low. But to achieve those exemplary results, Campisi had to triple IABs staff, hire the very best detectives, and put the word out that bad apples wouldnt be tolerated. While early pages of Campisis absorbing account bring us into the real world of cops, showing, for example, the agony that every cop suffers when he fires his gun, later pages spotlight a harrowing series of investigations that tested IABs capacities, forcing detectives to go undercover against cops who were thems
Who reads Blue on Blue : an Insider's Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Charles Campisi, former chief, NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau, with Gordon Dillow
- Publisher
- Scribner Book Company
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501127199
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Political Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (140 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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