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Report to the Commissioner
ISBN: 9780671786052
定价: 180.00
内容简介
In June 1971 Bo Lockley, the youngest
detective on the New York City police
force, tracked down and then shot and
killed another detective, narcotics under-
cover agent Patricia Butler, in a Times
Square loft. Less than thirty-six hours
later, Lockley was arrested and charged
with murder in the first degree.
The resulting scandal split the New
York City Police Department wide open.
The chief of the narcotics bureau retired
under pressure and the captain in charge
of all uudercovers was suspended. AlmoSt
every man in the narcotics bureau was
either reassigned or retired, and the en-
tire detective division went through a
complete reorganization. The Police
Commissioner demanded from the Inter-
nal Affairs Division a complete, highly
confidential report on the Lockley-Butler
incident. That report-in the form of
transcripts of taped interviews with vari-
ous participants as well as the Police
Department documents pertaining to the
Butler homicide and subsequent investi-
gation-constitutes this book.
Report to the Commissioner is a story
of one young man s innocence, and the
self-serving efforts of his superiors to use
him and finally to sacrifice him for their
own salvation. It is a story of idealism
against cynicism, of naivet~ against ex-
perience, of youth against age. And it is
