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Robert Leuci
Robert Leuci (February 28, 1940 – October 12, 2015) was a detective with the New York City Police Department (NYPD), known for his work exposing corruption in the police department and the criminal justice system.
After retiring from the NYPD, he wrote novels, short stories, TV episodes, and a memoir of his years on the force. He taught and had residencies at over 40 universities and law schools. And at many US police departments and the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, he lectured on morality and ethics erosion. Leuci knew Frank Serpico, known for being the first officer to expose corruption within the police department ranks.
The book Prince of the City (1978) by Robert Daley and the adapted Sidney Lumet film (1981) are based on a portion of Leuci's police career.
Leuci was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 28, 1940, to an Italian-American family. He was the son of James Leuci, a union official, and Lucy, a housewife. Right after his birth, the family moved to Ozone Park, Queens, where he attended John Adams High School. After high school, he attended Baker University in Kansas and then New York University, Fordham University, and The New School for Social Research in New York City.
At nineteen, Leuci took the test to enter the New York City Police Academy. At twenty-one, he graduated, becoming a member of the NYPD in 1961.
As a rookie, he was assigned to the 100th Precinct in Rockaway Beach, Queens. In 1962, he transferred to the Tactical Patrol Force (TPF), where he worked the Manhattan North and South Bronx precincts. In TPF, he worked in the city's highest crime areas. Leuci established relationships with street contacts, and he became one of the top arresting officers in the division. Leuci was transferred to the Narcotics Bureau for undercover work when he was 24. He created a network of field informants that led him to work numerous important cases. One of his first assignments was as a student who bought drugs at a high school.
Leuci soon entered the Special Investigative Unit (SIU) of the Narcotics Bureau, an elite unit formed by top detectives. In SIU, street dealers' cases no longer represented his team's objective. Rather, the unit aimed to find the major sources of drug distribution in the country and make cases against South American or other foreign cartel operatives.
The late 1960s were times in which NYPD officers like Frank Serpico and David Durk began battling widespread corruption within the NYPD. In the 1970s, Serpico and Durk came to believe that Leuci was the only honest detective in the Narcotics Bureau, though at the time, he was one of the corrupt.
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Robert Leuci
Robert Leuci (February 28, 1940 – October 12, 2015) was a detective with the New York City Police Department (NYPD), known for his work exposing corruption in the police department and the criminal justice system.
After retiring from the NYPD, he wrote novels, short stories, TV episodes, and a memoir of his years on the force. He taught and had residencies at over 40 universities and law schools. And at many US police departments and the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, he lectured on morality and ethics erosion. Leuci knew Frank Serpico, known for being the first officer to expose corruption within the police department ranks.
The book Prince of the City (1978) by Robert Daley and the adapted Sidney Lumet film (1981) are based on a portion of Leuci's police career.
Leuci was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 28, 1940, to an Italian-American family. He was the son of James Leuci, a union official, and Lucy, a housewife. Right after his birth, the family moved to Ozone Park, Queens, where he attended John Adams High School. After high school, he attended Baker University in Kansas and then New York University, Fordham University, and The New School for Social Research in New York City.
At nineteen, Leuci took the test to enter the New York City Police Academy. At twenty-one, he graduated, becoming a member of the NYPD in 1961.
As a rookie, he was assigned to the 100th Precinct in Rockaway Beach, Queens. In 1962, he transferred to the Tactical Patrol Force (TPF), where he worked the Manhattan North and South Bronx precincts. In TPF, he worked in the city's highest crime areas. Leuci established relationships with street contacts, and he became one of the top arresting officers in the division. Leuci was transferred to the Narcotics Bureau for undercover work when he was 24. He created a network of field informants that led him to work numerous important cases. One of his first assignments was as a student who bought drugs at a high school.
Leuci soon entered the Special Investigative Unit (SIU) of the Narcotics Bureau, an elite unit formed by top detectives. In SIU, street dealers' cases no longer represented his team's objective. Rather, the unit aimed to find the major sources of drug distribution in the country and make cases against South American or other foreign cartel operatives.
The late 1960s were times in which NYPD officers like Frank Serpico and David Durk began battling widespread corruption within the NYPD. In the 1970s, Serpico and Durk came to believe that Leuci was the only honest detective in the Narcotics Bureau, though at the time, he was one of the corrupt.