Initially, city detectives assumed that he had got wildly drunk in the red light district, but the case was not dropped.

Then, Louima, his cousin and a city detective were taken to the training room to meet Johnson.

Lennie Briscoe, city detectives said, was the most real fake police officer they had ever seen.

"That he's a big city detective and you're not."

He'd pinned it outside, where the big city detectives couldn't miss it.

Three hundred Federal agents and city detectives were now on the case, working around the clock for weeks.

He was found to be a man whom many city detectives knew well.

Also yesterday, city detectives continued to search for fresh witnesses in the case.

All this in confidence, of course, the agents had told the city detectives.

I thought it would be interesting to have a guy who read all these books and wants to be something more than an average city detective.