Ed,
Re your question below:
> Question: Wasn't the
> NYC Transit
> Police Dorothy Uhnak's old department? It seems
to
> ring a bell
> to me.
Yes it was. It was also the department of Jack Maple, the
prototype for both Jack Mannion in the TV series THE
DISTRICT, and Jack Swann, the the protoganist of Michael
Daly's very good subway cop novel, UNDER GROUND.
For a time, the NYC Transit Police were the ninth or tenth
largest police force in the US. Then they were absorbed into
NYPD (which was already far and away number one) during
Giuliani's administration.
When Mayor Giuliani made Boston Police Chief William Bratton
NYC's Police COmmissioner, Bratton took Maple, then a
lieutenant in Transit, and made him a deputy commissioner,
which is tantamount to an ensign in the Coast Guard being
made Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
Maple went on to create THE DISTRICT, but passed away shortly
after the show went on the air.
Other subway cop books include Thomas Walsh's TO HIDE A ROGUE
and, of course, John Godey's THE TAKING OF PELHAM
1-2-3.
JIM DOHERTY
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