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COP HUNTER

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"Vinnie Mu" focuses on a few major cases in which he investigated police corruption. On the one hand it is enlightening that corruption is soooooooo rampant among law enforcement but also disconcerting by the added fact that Mr. Murano appears to assign levels of corruption and therefore acceptability to lower level tiers of corruption.

One can only speculate what you or I might do if confronted by the choice of play along and reap benefits or make waves and suffer career jeopardy or worse.

The book is quite readable but limited. It is enlightening also all the obstacles Mr. Murano encountered trying to fight corruption.

The overriding element one might come away with in this book is whether government as law enforcer is mostly comprised of individuals seeking self-gain by playing the system or if the average citizen is essentially forced into paying protection money via taxation for predatory individuals who are controlled by being offered well-paying jobs. One unexplored area in this book is the possibility that not all corruption is bad, that some forms may serve to correct legitimate wrongs in a flawed system.You be the judge!

As a retired New York City cop who entered the department towards the end of the timeframe of this book, I can only say thank God this was not the department I knew. I've read Serpico and Prince of the City, but for whatever reason, this one I found most interesting. The book is a fast read. Highly recommended, especially for today's cops so that they know where the NYPD has been and that this type of history is not repeated. I would hope that the frustrations described in this book by the undercover corruption fighter no longer apply.

I tracked this book down because the author was Robert "Prince of the City" Leuci's neighbor. He was allegedly recruited into the IAB/Federal operation because Leuci didn't trust the feds to watch his back the way a fellow cop would. After months of looking for the book and finally reading it, I find he only mentions the whole episode in passing. He goes into detail on his other cases though, so if that is what your looking for it's an OK book.

the depiction is so mesmerizing. It gives you the notion that not all cops are corrupt even though at times it seems to be.

I found this a good read but was disappointed more examples weren't given. The scope of Murano's recounting is somwhat narrow.

One can only suspect police and law enforcement nationwide is greatly corrupted from reading this.

Excellent addition to your library on gov't corruption, from a city where drug-dealing cops loot $10,000/week snorting coke off the dashboards of their patrol cars.

"My job was to root out and investigate police corruption, and criminals who've infiltrated the police department.... Sure I went after other policemen. After other policemen that were criminals who happened to join the police department. There were drug dealers, murderers, rapists. These are the types of policemen that I went after. The general public should know there are real, serious criminals in the police department. I don't believe that it should be hidden. Let the policemen know that someone they worked with was a murderer, or a drug dealer."
-Detective Vincent Murano, NYPD Internal Affairs, from his book and audiotape, Cop Hunter