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The 75th Precinct today, located on Sutter Ave., East New York, Brooklyn. In the 1980s, Brooklyn, New York was suffering from a crack epidemic.Michael Dowd worked in the NYPD's 75th Precinct in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, which was considered to be one of the most dangerous precincts in the United States at the time.
In May 1992, five current and one retired NYPD officers were arrested and charged with trafficking drugs from Brooklyn into Long Island. Two of the officers were partners at the 75th Precinct, whilst the other officers were from the 73rd Precinct. [107]
Dowd was born on January 10, 1961, in Brooklyn, New York City, the third of seven children in an Irish Catholic family. [5] He grew up in Brentwood, Long Island, on a block mostly populated by the families of police officers and firefighters. [5] According to Dowd, he was a good student in high school. [5]
Under Mastronardi’s leadership, the Civilian Complaint Review Board logged 1,364 complaints of police misconduct. Change is coming to Brooklyn’s 75 Precinct.
Dowd notoriously ended up spending 12 years in prison for shaking down drug dealers, pilfering their wares and then selling the drugs when he worked in Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct in the late 1980s ...
The 75th precinct has a violent crime rate that’s 84% higher than New York City as a whole and 279% higher than the rest of the country, according to FBI data. It wasn’t always this way.
The Mollen Commission is formally known as The City of New York Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption and the Anti-Corruption Procedures of the Police Department. Former judge Milton Mollen was appointed in June 1992 by then New York City mayor David N. Dinkins to investigate corruption in the New York City Police Department .
Judge Nicholas Moyne dismissed the case brought by former NYPD cop Tabatha Foster against Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, which accused the chief of forcing her into an abusive yearslong affair.