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New York’s Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City
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Author:
Michael Daly
Publisher:
Twelve
Date:
December 7, 2021
A special correspondent with The Daily Beast explores the story of a city's transformation through the lens of "hero cops" who, the author argues, provided the spirit and smarts responsible for making New York safer.
What The Reviewers Say
[Officer Steven McDonald's] story is told early in the book in stunning detail.
New York’s Finest introduces readers to an array of officers who made a difference on the streets of New York over the past 30 years. But the author primarily focuses on two cops—Steven McDonald, a young officer paralyzed in a shooting in 1986, and Jack Maple, the onetime transit cop who became deputy commissioner in the early 1990s and introduced comparative statistics, soon to become famous as CompStat, to target where and when crimes were committed. Mr. Daly knew both men well, and it shows.
Heaving various law enforcement sins onto Giuliani allows the main narrative to become occasionally hagiographic toward police, sometimes literally: When McDonald died in 2017, Daly reported on efforts to make him a candidate for sainthood. Thorough, personality-driven reportage on policing, albeit tilted toward the police’s perspective..
