From 1995 to 2005, Leonard Levitt wrote the column
"One Police Plaza" for the newspaper Newsday about the New York
City police department. Before joining Newsday, he worked as a reporter
for the Associated Press and the Detroit News, as a correspondent
for Time Magazine, and as the investigations editor of the
New York Post. His work has appeared in Harper's, Esquire and the
New York Times magazine.
Levitt is the author of six books, the most recent of which is NYPD Confidential: Power and Corruption in the Country's Greatest Police Force. He received the 2005 non-fiction Edgar Award for Conviction:
Solving the Moxley Murder.
A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Columbia School of Journalism,
Levitt served two years in the Peace Corps in Tanzania, East
Africa, and has been the recipient of a grant from the Rockefeller
Foundation for the Humanities.