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Articles about Leonard Levitt:

Bullet"NYPD Intelligence Making FBI Blue," Washington Post, Apr. 26, 2010

Bullet"Permitted Behind Police Lines, But Not Welcome," The New York Times, Nov. 8, 2009

   

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.


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