Summary of Michael Connelly's Crime Beat

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The Fort Lauderdale Police Department has received 38 murders so far this year, which is a record-breaking number. The most ever was 52 in 1981.
#2 The police department has a rotation system for assigning cases to lead detectives. This time, partners Russo and Allen were up to handle the case from start to finish. If it wasn’t solved by the group effort in the next few hours, it would be theirs to work alone.
#3 The detectives were able to narrow down three potential scenarios regarding Walter: he was going to be a witness in a robbery trial, he was evicting people from the apartment, or he was allowing young men to stay in his apartment in exchange for work around the building.
#4 The detectives interview the two men who were with Troy when he was alive just minutes before his death. They know they have a case that will take a lot of work on the street.

Sujets

• General
• General officer
• True Crime

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 11 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9798822505902
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Michael Connelly's Crime Beat
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Fort Lauderdale Police Department has received 38 murders so far this year, which is a record-breaking number. The most ever was 52 in 1981.

#2

The police department has a rotation system for assigning cases to lead detectives. This time, partners Russo and Allen were up to handle the case from start to finish. If it wasn’t solved by the group effort in the next few hours, it would be theirs to work alone.

#3

The detectives were able to narrow down three potential scenarios regarding Walter: he was going to be a witness in a robbery trial, he was evicting people from the apartment, or he was allowing young men to stay in his apartment in exchange for work around the building.

#4

The detectives interview the two men who were with Troy when he was alive just minutes before his death. They know they have a case that will take a lot of work on the street.

#5

The detectives were unable to solve the Michael Connable case, and it began to rain as they carried him to the van. The blood began to wash down the drain, and the face of the body mover with the tattooed tears fell on it.

#6

On Friday, July 3, detectives Phil Mundy and Pete Melwid are called to the scene of the 40th murder that night, Johnnie Eddines. They clear the case just before midnight.

#7

The case is closed after Troy Tetreault, age 18, confesses to the murder. He says that Moody was attacking him, but all of his explanations do not explain how someone defending himself would stab his attacker between the shoulder blades and then ransack and rob his home.

#8

The Metropolitan Organized Crime Intelligence Unit is a secret police unit in Broward County, Florida. They follow and watch over the activities of mobsters, and they are closer than you could imagine.

#9

MIU’s operatives help build the cases, but they are usually not around when the building is finished. South Florida has always been a place where mobsters can be at their leisure, and not worry about being watched by northern detectives.

#10

The mob has always been present in Broward County, and the MIU was established in 1983 to deal with it. It has a $2 million budget, and each member agency pays the salaries of participants and shares the overhead.

#11

Law enforcement authorities believed that Scarfo wanted to take over parts of Broward County, or at least influence the referendum on casino gambling that was upcoming in Florida.

#12

While Nicky Scarfo was under the eye of MIU in Fort Lauderdale, two high-ranking members of his organization were in Philadelphia talking to the FBI and a grand jury. There were also 800 wiretaps.

#13

On Jan. 7, Little Nicky’s white Rolls pulled into Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Scarfo was dropped off at a charter airline’s front gate. He went into the airport lounge for a drink before boarding.

#14

The LAPD has a four-person foreign prosecution unit that works with Mexican authorities to bring suspects back to America to be tried. Since 1985, 48 Los Angeles cases have been brought to Mexico, and more than half the suspects have been captured, convicted, and jailed there.

#15

The LAPD has brought a few cases against Mexican citizens in Mexico, and they have been successful. However, some legal analysts argue that the American justice system provides defendants with many more protections than Mexico’s, such as the ability to confront their accusers.

#16

The LAPD has a history of sending suspects to Mexico to be prosecuted, despite many of them never returning.

#17

The United States and Mexico have an extradition treaty, but the United States has never extraditioned anyone to Mexico. Mexican law states that Mexican citizens who commit crimes outside the country should be prosecuted by Mexican authorities, while American law states that American citizens who commit crimes in other countries should be subject to prosecution there.

#18

The Los Angeles foreign prosecution unit is in the forefront of using this tactic. It is led by two homicide squad veterans, Detectives Zorrilla and Gilberto Moya, who see their jobs as equal parts detective work and diplomacy.

#19

The McAllen unit, which is bilingual, files cases in Mexico. The district attorney’s office must then formally relinquish jurisdiction of a case, an action that is not taken lightly.

#20

Because of differences in laws, making exact comparisons is impossible. However, officers familiar with U. S. cases said prison sentences seem to be slightly longer in Mexico.

#21

The officers make no secret of the value of the social side of the visits.

#22

Moya and Herrera traveled to Mexicali to present evidence in connection with an East Los Angeles murder. They met with the director of the state police, who asked detailed questions about the legal and diplomatic procedures they had followed.