Leonard Levitt

Leonard Levitt 11/10/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Few in the NYPD know Lawrence H. Sanchez. He is listed on ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 11/3/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Testimony in federal court this week provides a glimpse of ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 10/20/05 COMMENTARY

Mark this time and date in your notebook, readers: 3 p.m., ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 10/13/05 COMMENTARY

So what are we to make of the head of the FBI's New York ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 10/6/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

In a tale that will not die, a North Carolina woman has ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 9/29/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Was the NYPD's 80-truck motorcade with 300 officers, ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 9/15/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Is Police Commissioner Ray Kelly refusing to allow top ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 9/8/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Apparently with a straight face, Deputy Commissioner of ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 9/1/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

For a cop to be selected for the FBI Academy's 10-week ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 8/25/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

No man is indispensable - even after 9/11, as New Yorkers ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 8/18/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

In the hush-hush worlds of law enforcement and ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 8/11/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

The FBI is about to get a new spokesman. His name is John ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 8/4/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

The best job in law enforcement is being one of the Police ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 7/28/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Democratic mayoral candidate C. Virginia Fields says that ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 7/21/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Here is the police report of Det. Thomas Rossi of the ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 7/14/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

If patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels, as Dr. ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 7/7/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Here are two tales that reveal the NYPD's double standard ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 6/30/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Neither Mayor Michael Bloomberg nor City Comptroller ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 6/23/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Mayor Michael Bloomberg publicly begged Bernie Kerik to ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 6/16/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Chief Thomas Fahey, who served three police commissioners ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 6/9/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Ex-cop Francis X. Livoti's recent release after 7 years in ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 5/19/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

It was two years ago this week that Aaron Wong, a black ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 5/12/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's most embarrassing moment ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 5/5/05 FBI needs PR poo-bah

More than a month after Pasquale D'Amuro retired as head of ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 4/28/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

His mayoral campaign jeopardized because of his remarks ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 4/21/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Three days after he testified at a City Council hearing ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 4/14/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Can it be true? Will Police Commissioner Ray Kelly attend ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 4/7/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

While Amadou Diallo has become a touchstone and hot potato ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 3/31/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

When pitcher Pedro Martinez was hammered by the Yankees, ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 3/24/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Although polls reveal New Yorkers regard Ray Kelly as the ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 3/17/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Whether or not you think Fernando Ferrer is a political ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 3/10/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

The denials of his lawyer Stuart London notwithstanding, ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 3/3/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

The blue wall of silence is alive and well at One Police ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 2/24/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Garry McCarthy, the deputy commissioner for operations, has ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 2/17/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

The Police Foundation - the mother of all police support ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 2/10/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Bernard Kerik may have used corrections officers to provide ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 2/3/05 COMMENTARY

Relations between the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 1/27/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Bernard Kerik wasn't the only police official provided with ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 1/13/05 ONE POLICE PLAZA

A city judicial officer has hammered a final nail into the ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 1/6/05 The cops have got Zuckerman's back

Sometime in November, Mortimer Zuckerman discovered he was ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 12/16/04 WHAT IF?

Now that the Department of Investigation has revealed that ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 12/9/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

So why did Bernard Kerik bug out of Iraq before his ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 11/25/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

It took Police Commissioner Ray Kelly less than 24 hours to ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 11/18/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Is Police Commissioner Ray Kelly targeting police buffs in ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 11/11/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

With Bernard Kerik sweating out a possible appointment to ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 11/4/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Biggest NYPD beneficiary of President George W. Bush's ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 10/28/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

One of the NYPD's dirty little secrets is its culture of ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 10/21/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

The Police Department celebrated its Hispanic Heritage Week ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 9/30/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Here's a case with racial overtones that raises questions ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 9/16/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

As tragic as the death of Det. Patrick Rafferty was, he had ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 9/9/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

The long arm of the NYPD has reached out and grabbed Al ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 9/2/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Since the World Trade Center attack, a law-enforcement ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 8/19/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Two key FBI officials in the investigation of the 1981 ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 8/12/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

In what appears to be a footnote to history, One Police ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 8/5/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

When the first bombing of the World Trade Center occurred ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 7/8/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Much of the Police Department's top brass wasn't surprised ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 7/1/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

It seemed almost brazen. There in plain view next to the ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 6/24/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Standing before a federal judge in Maryland, his dark suit ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 6/17/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

In a town traditionally skeptical of the police, it is ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 6/10/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

The issue in the indictment of Officer Bryan Conroy is not ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 6/3/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

The head of the FBI's New York office has said the Police ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 5/19/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Here are some questions the Sept. 11 commission forgot or ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 5/13/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Mr. Teddy Leb, a.k.a. The Duke of Buffland, brings law ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 5/6/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Here is a tale of two fatal police shootings. ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 4/29/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

When Michael Bloomberg ran for mayor, he promised a more ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 4/22/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Here's the good news from the Mounted Division: The Police ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 4/15/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

In the latest twist in his four-year quest for a ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 4/8/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Here's an update on some of the NYPD's Intelligence ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 4/1/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA

Charlie DiRienzo, superintendent of the Port Authority ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 3/25/04 Big headache over a box of aspirins

Akey player in the alleged downgrading of crimes in the ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 3/18/04 ONE POLICE PLAZA: In Madrid, NYPD gets cold shoulder

Now that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has given the ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 2/12/04 PBA's Sound, Fury Signifies Not Much

He did what he had to do. But it may be less than meets the ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 2/5/04 Settlement of Suits Unsettling to Some

Has the Latino Officers Association used the federal courts ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 1/29/04 No-Win Situation For Commish

When Police Commissioner Ray Kelly quickly called a white ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 1/22/04 Demoted Officer Casualty of War?

Is the demotion of a deputy inspector the latest cold-war ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 1/15/04 Pressure Mounts On Horse Unit

A shake-up is under way in the NYPD's Mounted Unit. ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 1/8/04 Taking a Bit Out Of '03 Crime Stats

The NYPD's 2003 crime numbers are in and they're all good. ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 10/12/03 Finding Out Who's Boss

Chief of Department Joe Esposito doesn't get along so hot ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 10/5/03 Kelly's Break From the Past

After Alberta Spruill died of a heart attack she suffered ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 9/28/03 Grasso Was Gift to NYPD

With his $140 million retirement package, ex-New York Stock ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 9/21/03 Bye to Baghdad Just in Time

Baghdad Bernie Kerik - whose whereabouts for the past three ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 8/31/03 PBA Not What It Used to Be

There was a time when the letters PBA, which stand for the ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 8/24/03 Watchdog Post Finally Filled

Here is the largest police department in the world. Here is ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 8/10/03 From Rudy's Lips To the Mayor's Ear

Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani protested to Mayor Michael ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 7/27/03 Kelly's Knack: PR Dexterity

For a police commissioner who prizes his image above all ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 7/20/03 Kelly Top Secret On FBI Meeting

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly held a secret meeting with ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 7/13/03 Setting an Old Record Straight

Let's hope Chief of Patrol Nicholas Estavillo is more ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 7/6/03 Unusual Tack In Raid Probe

Patrolmen's Benevolent Association attorney Stu London is ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 6/29/03 Crime Statistics Doubts Adding Up

The suspicions that the Police Department is downgrading ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 6/15/03 MTA Set to Name New Security Chief

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is to announce ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 3/16/03 Closed Court A Big Mistake

What was Staten Island Supervising Judge Leonard Rienzi ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 3/9/03 For the Worthy, It's Dinner Time

For three days last week, the front doors to One Police ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 2/16/03 Latinos Boil In Bad Blood

In its short, cacophonous life, the Latino Officers ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 2/9/03 Sweeping Away Street Marches

Without announcement or explanation, the Police Department ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 9/2/02 ONE POLICE PLAZA / Confidential / COMMENTARY / PBA, Kelly Failing To Communicate

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly did not attend last week's ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 7/14/02 ONE POLICE PLAZA / Confidential / COMMENTARY / Kelly Is the Color Of Confidence

Responding to headlines of a seeming epidemic of prisoner ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 6/30/02 ONE POLICE PLAZA / Confidential / COMMENTARY / Wiese Facing Real Dilemma

We all know of the Blue Wall of Silence, which supposedly ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 3/10/02 ONE POLICE PLAZA / Confidential / COMMENTARY / It Wasn't Fahey's Finest Moment

Here's the latest in the Bernie, Tom and Judith story ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 3/3/02 ONE POLICE PLAZA / Confidential / COMMENTARY / Court Ruling Puts The Heat on Worth

A federal appeals court has spoken. And if Stephen Worth is ... Read more »

Leonard Levitt 2/24/02 ONE POLICE PLAZA / Confidential / Mayor In Pilot Seat

City Hall may refuse to divulge whether Mayor Michael ... Read more »