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68: Part 2: Tommy Joyce and Mike Prate - Tales of the NYPD

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Mike worked together at the 79th Precinct, NYPD. During their time covering the most active one square mile in New York City, they investigated and solved hundreds of cases. From well known rappers to holocaust survivors who were killed, Tommy and Mike share just a few of the many stories that left an impact on them and made a mark in the 79th.




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Well, you know, I was just going to say back in our day, we had the OPEN maps and a different

0:16.8

color pen represented a different crime and it was amazing how you could just pinpoint.

0:21.6

It really does cluster up and you know where you need to set your resources on the map.

0:25.8

That's exactly right. And I will do not confirm or deny. I just know that some people used

0:31.7

to break into the commander's office when they were eventually got to pin maps and move the

0:36.7

pins around and screw everything up. But I'm just saying that that might have happened,

0:42.0

but I cannot confirm nor deny that it did.

0:44.3

Well, you can't answer your invitations has run out, so you're safe.

0:47.3

And this is true. But those pins might have been in some type of shape, right?

0:51.9

Like, right? You're saying exactly.

0:55.0

Oh, wait a minute. Are you talking about a penis symbol?

0:58.8

I'm just saying hypothetically, there was a lot of things going on back there.

1:01.8

Ah, got you. Okay. So, so that was your way of telling the commander what he was a dick.

1:08.7

Sometimes. So, so then you have Steve, you're correct. We eventually got to

1:16.2

as we as and I only saw the butcher block paper in transit because we didn't use pin maps

1:21.8

the same way we used them in this way. But once I went to the NYPD and we moved over pre the

1:27.8

computerized statistics that we're talking about, there were still pin maps. And even even after

1:34.1

their computers, some people still did a manually A out of old habit, but B also it's just a quick

1:39.8

representation. I can move things around. Not everyone had computers or were in terminals at every

1:44.1

desk like there are now. Everyone's got laptops now. So it was just a migration into it.

1:48.2

It was a transition and a and a shift of of the way of doing things.

1:54.3

And so what we would do is we would then look at these these maps. And like I said,

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