| Description |
261 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Prologue: It Ain't Over Till the Fat Man's Thin -- 2. "A Game of Bluff": What's Wrong with Policing -- 3. Crookology: 101 Stalking the Predatory Criminal -- 4. Trenchcoat Warfare: Reeducating the World's Greatest Detectives -- 5. Get Smart: Accurate, Timely Intelligence -- 6. "Put Cops on Dots": Rapid Deployment -- 7. The Tool Bag: Effective Tactics -- 8. Rust Patrol: Relentless Follow-up and Assessment -- 9. America's Most Wanted: Guns, Gangs, and Drug Crews -- 10. The Battle within: Corruption, Brutality, and the Wrongfully Accused -- 11. The Perfect World: Everybody's a Louie |
| Summary |
"Former NYPD Deputy Commissioner Jack Maple was determined to revolutionize the way crime is fought - how cops go after crooks, and how they prevent crime from happening in the first place. And he succeeded. Two years after Maple became Deputy Commissioner, the seemingly explosive crime rate was going down - fast: murder rate down 50 percent, crime down overall by 39 percent. And by 1998, the number of murders in New York City for the year was lower than in 1964."--BOOK JACKET. "But Maple is not satisfied. In The Crime Fighter he tells the reader how crime can and should be attacked. Laced with fascinating, incredible and often humorous tales of Maple's adventures as a cop, the book is as entertaining as it is informative. Anyone interested in how criminals think and act, and how the police should do their jobs as servants of the people, not as an occupying force, will devour this book."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Maple, Jack.
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New York (N.Y.). Police Department -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
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Police -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
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Crime prevention -- New York (State) -- New York.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Author |
Mitchell, Chris, 1964-
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| LC no. |
99027145 |
| ISBN |
0385493630 |
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