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...death was too much for Mayor William O'Dwyer, himself once a cop on a Brooklyn beat. As a result of a gambling-and-graft investigation by Brooklyn's District Attorney Miles McDonald, a lot of other policemen had been called before the grand jury. A lieutenant had been indicted for perjury about the source of $6,000 in his personal funds; a police inspector had had a mental collapse. As O'Dwyer saw it, Prosecutor McDonald, an ally of O'Dwyer's latest political enemy, Borough President John Cashmore, was carrying...
Never before had a New York cop gotten such a turnout-not even the late Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine nor any policeman killed in line of duty...
Friendly Gesture. The sheriff of Dade County (Miami), an ex-prize fighter and traffic cop named Jimmy Sullivan, also gave a fine performance. He appeared before the committee flanked by a lawyer and a tax accountant and declared 1) that his assets had increased from $2,500 in 1944 (when he was elected sheriff) to $70,000 in 1948, and 2) that after federal income-tax authorities had questioned some of his returns, he had amended them to include $50,000 more income than showed on the originals. But he explained that his increase in wealth had come only from...
...Long was a toughie all right; he had three stretches for stealing and assault on his record, had crashed out of prison twice. But it wasn't Long the G-men were interested in. They hoped he would lead them to his old pal, John Omar Pinson, a cop killer who had escaped from Salem a year before and worked himself onto the FBI's list of "most wanted" criminals...
...Among those in the rogues' gallery: a ruthless hooligan (Sterling Hayden) with a twisted sense of honor and self-respect; an urbane lawyer (Louis Calhern) who is addicted to high living and low morality; a coldly efficient criminal mastermind (Sam Jaffe); a spineless, greedy bookie (Marc Lawrence); a cop-hating hunchback (James Whitmore); a home-loving safecracker (Anthony Caruso); a pathetic nightclub trollop (Jean Hagen); a cynically corrupt detective (Barry Kelley...