The Crime Fighter: Putting the Bad Guys Out of Business

280 Pages·1999·16.67 MB·English

by  Jack Maple, Chris Mitchell

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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
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...CRIME
FIGHTER
PUTTING THE BAD GUYS OUT OF BUSINESS
JACK MAPLE
WITH CHRIS MITCHELL
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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