The Crime Fighter: Putting the Bad Guys Out of Business PDF
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U.S. $24.95 / CANADA $37.95 WHY THE CROOKS ARE ON THE RUN...AND HOW TO KEEP THEM RUNNING The number one strategist in the war against crime is a colorful dandy with an attitude, a fixture on the celebrity scene at Elaine’s restaurant, and, worst of all in the eyes of his critics, a former lieutenant in the despised New York City Transit Force—a subway cop who wears spectator shoes, bow ties and a hom- burg, and drinks champagne on ice. But former NYPD Deputy Commissioner Jack Maple was also an extraordinarily tough and brilliant cop, who rose through the ranks by being relentless, fearless and clever. As a young officer, he constantly got in trou¬ ble for making too many arrests (too much paper¬ work, said the bosses), and as a transit detective he pioneered the fabled decoy squad that drove crimi¬ nals out of the subways in the 1980s. Most impor¬ tant, Maple had ideas—ideas that would transform New York City, then other cities, and change the way people think about crime. Maple knew from his twenty years on the force that stopping crime was not a priority of the police- unbelievable but true. Crooks worked nights and weekends, but the cops didn’t want to. Vast areas of the city were written off by the police—because they thought they were lost forever. Too bad about the cit¬ izens who lived there. Maple was determined to revo¬ lutionize the way crime is fought—how cops go after crooks, and how they prevent crime from happening CONTINUED ON BACK FLAP ...CRIME FIGHTER Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/crimefighterputtOOOOmapl ...CRIME FIGHTER PUTTING THE BAD GUYS OUT OF BUSINESS JACK MAPLE WITH CHRIS MITCHELL j, DOUBLEDAY NEWYORK • LONDON • TORONTO • SYDNEY • AUCKLAND PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY a division of Random House, Inc. 1540 Broadway, New York, New York 10036 Doubleday and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are trademarks of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. Book design by Julie Duquet Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Maple, Jack. The crime fighter: putting the bad guys out of business/by Jack Maple with Chris Mitchell. —1st ed. p. cm. Includes index. 1. Maple, Jack. 2. New York (N.Y.) Police Dept.— Officials and employees—Biography. 3. Police—New York (State)—New York—Biography. 4. Crime prevention— New York (State)—New York. I. Mitchell, Chris, 1964- . II. Title. HV7911.M343A3 1999 363.2'092—dc21 [B] 99-27145 CIP Copyright © 1999 by Jack Maple ISBN 0-385-49363-0 All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America November 1999 First Edition 10 987654321 This book is dedicated to all the victims of violent crime particularly those cops who died for the greater good of all
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