#103: Case Files of the NYPD

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2010

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We're playing Good Cop / Bad Cop this week, as we take a close look at four events from the early history of the New York Police Department. You'll meet shining stars of the force like Jacob Hays, who kept the peace in the early 19th century armed with a mean billyclub -- and the only man to ever hold the title of High Constable of New York. And then you'll encounter Joseph Petrosino, the Italian immigrant turned secret weapon in the early battles against organized crime.Not all the early men in blue were so recommendable. During the Police Riot of 1857, cop turned against cop while the city burned and "Five Points criminals danced in the streets." And finally there's the lamentable tale of officer Charley Becker, the only member of the New York Police Department to be executed for criminal misdeed. But did he really commit the crime -- commissioning the murder of a nervous gambler who was prepared to rat him out?www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 103 of The Bowery Boys, Case Files of the NYPD.
0:05.3	Hey, it's The Bowery Boys!
0:06.8	Hey!
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0:22.1	Hello there, welcome to The Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young.
0:25.4	And this is Tom Myers.
0:26.5	With another rousing episode of The Bowery Boys New York City History.
0:31.0	This time around, we are tackling a history of the New York City Police Department.
0:36.0	Right, but I think Greg, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think we're going to tackle
0:39.8	this in a slightly different manner.
0:42.1	Yes, we have a new game plan at least for this particular topic, because this is something
0:47.2	I think that we'd like to come back to in future podcasts.
0:51.2	So, we've decided to frame this one a little bit like our ghost stories, and so instead
0:55.9	of telling just sort of a chronological history of the police department, we're actually
1:00.6	going to feature four tales of heroism, of corruption, of detective skills.
1:07.8	And these four tales will frame in a context with some details of the history, but we're
1:12.6	going to primarily keep it in the 19th century, maybe from the year 1800 to about pre-prohibition.
1:20.1	And we're calling it case files because we're sort of imagining that we're flipping through
1:24.4	the vertical files at the police department, and we're pulling out cases, and in today's
1:29.0	case, we'll be looking mostly at officers and lieutenants and people who have worked
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