NYPD A City and its Police Author:James Lardner, Thomas Reppetto, James Lardner James Lardner and Thomas Reppetto, who know the police world from the inside out, throw today's headlines into a vivid relief by taking us back more than 150 years ago into a succession of immigrant waves, long, hot summers, and career destroying crises and scandals. Fascinating as history, NYPD is also a telling look at the fears, the lore, the... more » slang, the secrets and the rituals of a chronically misunderstood professin.« less