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Focusing on New York City's most violent and corrupt years - the 1960s through to the early 1980s - former NYPD cop Jim O'Neil delivers a rare look at the brand of law enforcement that brought an end to Frank Lucas' grip on the Harlem drug trade, the cracking of the Black Liberation Army case and his experience as the first cop on the scene at the famous ""Dog Day afternoon"" bank robbery.
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O'Neil, Jim |s Jim O'Neil has served as a New York City Police Department patrolman, head of the Homicide Task Force, and was a boss in the Senior Citizens Robbery Squad before retiring in 1984.
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