Police News Roundup.
It's a slow news day today, not unexpected after a holiday weekend. But here is what's out there:

A severed hand fell from the sky and landed on a long island boat on Sunday. Nassau County Police are investigating.

Bronx firefighters are claiming that they are being harrassed by members of the Police Department assigned to Highway District No. 1 in the Bronx.

Renovations at the 66th PRecinct uncovered the 52 year-old investigative file regarding the murder of Arnold Schuster, a Brooklyn man who identified Willie Sutton to the police in 1952. The crime remains unsolved, but Detective William McKeever is still alive and 86 years-old. Base10 has had some contact with other units about this very same issue. Unfortunately, there is no central repository or system to preserve records like this.

In another not-quite-so-old-case, federal officials are reopening the investigation into the murder of mobster Dominick Napolitano, who was purportdly murdered for introducing FBI undercover Donnie Brasco to fellow mobsters.

Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes has reportedly signed a book deal for a crime novel with St. Martin Press.

The trial started today in the case of a mistaken apartment raid by the Police in Borough Park, Brooklyn in 1996. The plaintiff, Ann Roman, had a heart attack that night but just died in 2002--nearly six years later. Plaintiff's are claiming that Roman's death is a result of the raid. No wonder the city is insisting the case go to trial.

The NYCLU, self-styled protectors of our civil liberties, has complained about a new system giving access to federal terrorism databases to local law enforcement officers in New York and Vermont. They claim the new system will create an "enormous risk" of unjustified detentions. That's a risk we'll just have to take.

Heroes:

• Brooklyn Firefighters who went the extra mile to save a cab driver's finger in Brooklyn.
  
• Rockland County Judge Kenneth Resnik, who sentenced Jeffrey Berkley to thirty years in prison for two brutal attacks on women within the same hour in Westchester County.

Goats:

• Scott Peterson who is finally going to trial for the murder of his wife and unborn child.
  
• Bernard Hinson, who was arrested yesterday for the shooting death of David Bovian in the Bronx.

And finally, in the "that's not much of a disguise" department, two Peruvian mayors fled from angry mobs accusing them of corruption and theft. The mayors had to dress up like policemen to be spirited away from the angry crowds and are now in hiding. Base10 thinks they should keep the uniforms, since they might need to find new work very shortly.
- posted by Base10 @ 11:30 AM