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Michael Armstrong

They Wished They Were Honest

The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption

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In fifty years of prosecuting and defending criminal cases in New York City and elsewhere,Michael F. Armstrong has often dealt with cops. For a single two-year span, as chief counsel to the Knapp Commission, he was charged with investigating them. Based on Armstrong's vivid recollections of this watershed moment in law enforcement accountability--prompted by the New York Times's report on whistleblower cop Frank Serpico-- They Wished They Were Honest recreates the dramatic struggles and significance of the Commission and explores the factors that led to its success and the restoration of the NYPD's public image. Serpico's charges against th… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-231-15354-6
  • EAN: 9780231153546
  • Produktnummer: 12124824
  • Verlag: Columbia University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.9 cm x D2.2 cm 510 g
  • Abbildungen: 20 photos
  • Gewicht: 510
  • Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor


Michael F. Armstrong is a partner at the law firm Lankler and Carragher in New York. He was the chief counsel to the Knapp Commission and an assistant United States attorney in theSouthern District of New York (chief, Securities Fraud Unit), as well as district attorney for Queens County, New York. Currently chair of the New York City Commission to Combat Police Corruption, he served as advisor to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo regarding allegations of political influence in the state police and continues to work on high-profile cases, which have involved such people as financier Louis Wolfson, boxing promoter Don King, accused would-be wife killer Claus von Bulow, and Queens County Borough President Donald Manes.

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