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Cop talk : true detective stories from the NYPD by E.W. Count with a foreword by William J. Caunitz is a humor available to read on EtoBox.

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Journalist E.W. Count interviewed nearly one hundred New York City detectives for this book. In the bold, uncensored style that makes police officers the world's greatest raconteurs, New York's finest detectives recall the famous cases they've worked on: the fiery Happy Land disco homicide, with eighty-seven innocent victims...the trapping of a serial killer in the case of murdered ten-year-old Jessica Guzman...the Brink's robbery...the Preppy Murder case...the rub-out of "Big Paul" Castellano, perhaps the most professional of all mob executions...the apprehension of the "Silver Gun Bandit," who robbed and raped his way through Manhattan...the Central Park Jogger case that rocked a seemingly shock-proof city. Then there are the stories that don't make the front page. A police dog that blows its nose, the better to sniff out human remains. Grave-robbers who steal body parts for Santeria rites. The night Chinatown's notorious Ghost Shadows came to the cops for help with a kidnapping by a rival Colombian drug gang from Queens. How legendary Detective First Grade Olga Ford, "one of the toughest cops in Harlem," got inside the head of drug kingpin Leroy "Nicky" Barnes, known as "Mr. Unt

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Author
E.W. Count with a foreword by William J. Caunitz
Publisher
Simon & Schuster of Canada
Published
1995
Language
EN
ISBN
9780671783419
Category
humor
Subjects
Fiction, Law, True Crime
Rating
3.62 / 5 (21 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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