Varnished Brass: The Decade After Serpico

by Barbara Gelb

A detailed examination of the New York City Police Department looks at how it has changed since the reforms of the Knapp Commission in the seventies. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399128719
• ISBN13: 9780399128714
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent story superbly written

a great read! plenty of background on the NYPD even though by now it is somewhat dated. Yet the ever ambitious, careerists are still with us today. The writing style is captivating.