I’ve been posting this every year since I put up this site. This is from my collection from the Photo Unit at 1 Police Plaza. As always, it’s sad to see the WTC, but this remains one of my favorite shots. In New York City, Santa has a helicopter instead of reindeer! (All those spires, […]

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When I wrote my book about the NYPD’s Cold Case Squad I picked 4 cases to write about. It was a nightmare keeping them all straight. In any one case there are just endless facts, tests, people, answers, places, and calls, etc. to keep track of, and the mob case, forget about it. For each […]

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Former Police Commissioner Reveals Crime Plan, by Anna Ditkoff, June 27th, 2007, the Baltimore City Paper. “At a press conference on Tuesday, June 19, former Baltimore City police commissioner Ed Norris unveiled before an audience of four TV news crews and three print journalists a plan to combat the wave of homicides and shootings that […]

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The NYPD just put out an RFP (request for proposal) to computerize and overhaul their current evidence storage system. Before embarking on this huge, expensive, time-consuming project–it will probably takes years to complete–the responsiblity for storing evidence should be handed over to an independent group. I posted about this recently in response to a New […]

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