TY - BOOK AU - Levitt,Leonard TI - NYPD confidential: power and corruption in the country's greatest police force SN - 9780312380328 (alk. paper) AV - HV 8148 L666n 2009 U1 - 363.20973 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Thomas Dunne Books KW - Police corruption KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - History KW - Police administration KW - Police KW - Corrupción policial KW - New York (Estado) KW - Policía KW - Estados Unidos KW - Delitos N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Evidence of things not seen -- The secret meeting -- The rise of Bill Bratton -- The dirty thirty -- The fall of Bill Bratton -- Get on the train or get under it -- The tragedies of Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo -- How well do you know Bernie Kerik? -- Never appoint a bitter man police commissioner N2 - With amazing details of backroom deals and larger-than-life powerbrokers, Levitt lays bare the backstabbing, power-grabs, and chaotic internal investigations that have run the NYPD's reputation into the ground in the past--and the forces conspiring to do so once again ER -