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Entries from September 2010

LAPD Cold Case Unit is now Larger Than the NYPD’s

September 27th, 2010 · No Comments

Someone recently asked me how many detectives are in the NYPD’s Cold Case Squad. There are now only nine. There were twenty-seven when I wrote my book and I was told that there were around fifty when the unit started (although there are 40 in the early group shot below, minus the commanding officers). The […]

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Compstat

September 6th, 2010 · No Comments

I’ve been cringing ever since the story broke alleging that the NYPD is basically doing what they can to make their crime stats appear better than they are. Leonard Levitt makes some interesting points about it in his September 6th post on his blog (that link will always take you to the current post so […]

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