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The Seventh and Ninth Precincts in the Lower
East Side of Manhattan were reported by the to
have undergone a 100% increase in murders in the
period from Jan. 1-August 18, 1996 as compared
with the same months of 1995, bucking both a
nationwide and citywide trend.
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On October 9, NYPD Sergeant Thomas Kennedy of
the 24th Precinct in the Upper West Side of
Manhattan was arraigned on charges of
first-degree assault for lifting a burglary
suspect up while handcuffed and dropping him
face down on the pavement. Kennedy is charged
with brutalizing Ricardo Cruz, one of three men
who allegedly fled a parking garage when police
responded to a report of suspicious activity.
According to six witnesses, after Cruz was
handcuffed behind his back, Kennedy picked him
up off the ground and threw him into the
pavement; unable to break his fall, Cruz
suffered a cracked rib and a laceration to the
forehead and lost three teeth. The cops then
charged Cruz with assault, resisting arrest, and
a variety of burglary-related charges.
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On November 13, Thomas Zichetello and Frank
Richardone, vice-president and treasurer,
respectively of the now-defunct Transit Police
Benevolent Association and current board members
of the New York City PBA, were indicted in
Federal Court on charges that they embezzled
$265,000 from the cop union and used the money
to buy new cars for themselves and family
members.
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Inspector Charles Luisi of the NYPD took the
Fifth Amendment in November as prosecutors
grilled him about accepting free trips to
Montreal and Puerto Rico from a Manhattan gun
dealer whose shop supplies the police. The gun
dealer's ex-wife is alleging in a lawsuit that
her former husband used his connections in the
Police Department to have detectives hold her
prisoner in a hotel room for three days.
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On November 3, Newark, New Jersey's former
Police Director William R. Celester was
sentenced to two and a half years in jail for
embezzling over $50,000 in police department
funds and using it to pay for vacations and
gifts for his wife and mistresses.
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On October 3, a black man named Charles Campbell
parked his car in front of a delicatessen in
Dobbs Ferry in upstate New York. The owner of
the deli, Richard DiGuglielmo, came out and
screamed at Campbell that he could not park
there, and Campbell told him that he was just
going to buy a slice of pizza and would be right
back. When he came back, he found that the deli
owner and his son, off-duty NYPD Officer Richard
DiGuglielmo Jr., had vandalized his windshield
with a sticker. A fight ensued, and the younger
DiGuglielmo shot Campbell to death with a
handgun.
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Officer Desmond Robinson has plea-bargained out
of charges of assault, sodomy, and attempted
rape stemming from a drunken sexual attack on an
off-duty female officer with whom he was out
bar-crawling in downtown Manhattan. Robinson
pled guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge.
Shadow readers will remember that Robinson was
shot in the back by fellow officer Robert Del
Debbio in 1994. Del Debbio, who is white,
mistook Robinson in plainclothes for a black
suspect.
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On October 13, off-duty police officer Brian
Jones was accidentally shot in the back of the
head and killed by another off-duty officer
during a personal gunfight between the two
off-duty officers and a man against whom them
were seeking revenge for a mugging. 
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Investigators from the NYPD Internal Affairs
Bureau have begun an inquiry into allegations
that male officers at the Traffic Control
Division had been secretly observing female
officers through a hole in the wall between the
men's and women's locker rooms.
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While directing traffic around the scene of a
collision on December 9, Officer Neil Forster of
the 50th Precinct in the Bronx was struck and
critically injured by a station wagon driven by
off-duty Officer James Kalendarian. Kalendarian,
a highly decorated veteran of ten years on the
force was intoxicated.Forster is still
hospitalized with severe head injuries and has
had a leg amputated.
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On November 13, an all-white jury in Pittsburgh
acquitted white police officer John Vojtas of
beating and killing black motorist Johnny
Gammage during a traffic stop after Gammage had
emerged from his car holding a cellular phone
that cops claim they mistook for a gun. A white
tow truck driver who was the only witness who
was not a participant in the beating testified
that the police had started the confrontation,
which took place on October 12, 1995.