Blue on Blue by Charles Campisi & Gordon Dillow

Author:Charles Campisi & Gordon Dillow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner

Also on Wednesday we order Volpe, who we’ve already relieved of his gun and shield, to report the IAB Brooklyn Borough offices, where we formally arrest him for aggravated sexual abuse and first-degree assault; he’s arraigned the next day and is released on $100,000 bond. A couple days later he and Schwarz are both indicted by a grand jury. On Thursday Safir suspends, reassigns, or transfers ten cops from the Seven-Oh, including the precinct CO, the XO, and the two sergeants on duty the night Louima was attacked.

Meanwhile, we’re continuing our IAB investigation. After the DA gets search warrants we search the lockers of every cop on the midnight tour and other areas of the precinct, looking for the stick used in the assault; we also search every Dumpster in the vicinity, and we even have the city Sanitation Department dredge the sewers, but we can’t find the stick. We also interview witnesses who saw the arrest at the Club Rendez-Vous—for help with that we draft into IAB two young, Haitian-born cops who speak Creole, both of whom turned out to be excellent investigators—as well as the EMTs who transported Louima and medical staff at the hospital who treated him. We also try to talk to other cops who were in the precinct that night, but the precinct PBA delegate has been appearing at roll calls, telling the cops to keep their mouths shut. For the first few days, at least, nobody in blue is talking. Except for Louima, we have no eyewitnesses to what happened in the precinct that night.

And then at 3:30 a.m. on Friday, IAB Captain Barry Fried, who had spent the previous twenty-four hours working nonstop on the Louima case, gets a call at home from a friend, another NYPD captain, who’s at the Seven-Oh. The captain tells Barry there’s a rookie cop at the Seven-Oh who’s ready to talk—but he’s kind of shaky, and the precinct PBA delegate is trying to get him to shut up. Barry calls the IAB Command Center, and they call me, and we agree that Barry should go to the precinct immediately, and take a couple of IAB lieutenants with him, to grab this kid before anybody gets to him.

The rookie cop is Eric Turetzky, a shy, diffident kid who lives with his mother and grandparents in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn. Turetzky is one of the cops who was at the club the night Louima was arrested, and although he didn’t see it happen, he was in the precinct when the assault took place. Disgusted by what happened to Louima, and troubled by the PBA’s attempts to cover it up—some PBA delegates are buying the story that Louima was injured during rough gay sex at the club—he decides, after talking it over with his family, to come forward.

At two o’clock Friday morning, while taking his meal break, Turetzky sees a police duty captain—Barry Fried’s friend—and a couple of “suits” in the CO’s office. The young cop thinks the suits

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