N Y P D True

A co-creator of television's New York police drama series, NYPD Blue, and a much-decorated New York detective collaborate to describe how the series came to be made, the true stories on which it was based, and others that are too controversial to be covered.

Six thousand New Yorkers shot, and another two thousand killed each year: this was the way of life in New York City during the late 1980's and early 1990's. The city was losing the war on drugs. The epicenter of New York City's crack trade was Southeast Queens, where the Supreme Team and their associates had ruled through intimidation and violence. The crack epidemic, and crack wars which followed, wreaked havoc of the citizens of those neighborhoods.Having worked in Southeast Queens during the crack era, George Norris witnessed firsthand the decay brought to the community. NYPD TRUE is told through a series of anecdotes and short stories, ranging from comical to dangerous. This autobiography combines the history of the Southeast Queens crack trade, the NYPD, and war stories from one of the NYPD's most decorated officers.

As Seen On Discovery Channel's "Street Justice: The Bronx" 2,000 arrests. 100 off-duty arrests. 6,000 assists. 15 shootings. 8 shot. 4 kills. These are not the performance statistics of an entire NYPD unit. They are the record that makes Detective 2nd Grade Ralph Friedman a legend. Friedman was arguably the toughest cop ever to wear the shield and was the most decorated detective in the NYPD’s 170-year history. Stationed at the South Bronx’s notorious 41 Precinct, known by its nickname “Fort Apache,” Friedman served during one of the city’s most dire times: the 1970s and ‘80s, when fiscal crisis, political disillusionment, an out-of-control welfare system, and surging crime and drug use were just a few of its problems. Street Warrior tells an unvarnished story of harrowing vice and heroic grit, including Friedman’s reflections on racial profiling, confrontations with the citizens he swore to protect, and the use of deadly force.

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. Untouchable". The initiation of Detective Robert Chung and Officer Dave Huang into the Taiwanese gang United Bamboo as bona fide "made members", the first time law enforcement officers actually joined the triad - and how a mistake by an FBI agent almost blew the whole operation. The perp who hid in the dryer, the corpse in the refrigerator, "Samsonited" bodies in a Staten Island Mafia graveyard.

“The Mosque case of 1972 is the most famous case amongst the rank and file of the NYPD and Circle of Six holds no punches.” —Joe “Donnie Brasco” Pistone, former FBI special agent Circle of Six is the true story of what is perhaps the most notorious case in the history of the New York Police Department. It details Randy Jurgensen’s determined effort to bring to justice the murderer of Patrolman Phillip Cardillo, who was shot and killed inside Harlem’s Mosque #7 in 1972, in the midst of an all-out assault on the NYPD from the Black Liberation Army. The New York of this era was a place not unlike the Wild West, in which cops and criminals shot it out on a daily basis. Despite the mayhem on the streets and the Machiavellian corridors of Mayor Lindsay’s City Hall, Detective Jurgensen single-handedly took on the Black Liberation Army, the Nation of Islam, NYPD brass, and City Hall, capturing Cardillo’s killer, Lewis 17X Dupree. He broke the case with an unlikely accomplice, Foster 2X Thomas, a member of the Nation of Islam who became Jurgensen’s witness. The relationship they formed during the time before trial gave each of the two men a greater perspective of the two sides in the street war and changed them forever. In the end, Jurgensen had to settle for a conviction on other charges, and Dupree served a number of years. The murder case is still officially unsolved. In 2006 the NYPD re-opened the case, and it is once again an active investigation with full media attention. The book has received acclaim from former New York City Police Commissioners Ray Kelly and William Bratton.

A Cop's Tale focuses on New York City's most violent and corrupt years, the 1960s to early 1980s. Jim O'Neil - a former NYPD cop - delivers a rare look at the brand of law enforcement that ended Frank Lucas's grip on the Harlem drug trade, his cracking open of the Black Liberation Army case, and his experience as the first cop on the scene at the Dog Day Afternoon bank robbery.

Sixteen-year NYPD veteran Ralph Sarchie investigates cases of demonic possession and assists in the exorcisms. Now he discloses for the first time his investigations into incredible true crimes and inhuman evil that were never explained, solved, or understood by anyone except Sarchie and his partner. Photos.