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About the Detroit Police Department
The Detroit Police Department is the 10th largest police department in the nation.
It has over 3,700 sworn and civilian employees with an annual operating budget of over $414 million. The Detroit Police Department is responsible for providing law enforcement service to more than 950,000
residents; over 10,000 businesses; and 258 schools in the city of Detroit, which spans 138.7 square miles.
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Larry Nevers became a police officer for the Detroit Police Department at the
age of twenty-eight. During his 24 year career, he spent four years in patrol
and the next twenty years in a variety of undercover assignments. During his
career, he made more than 5,000 felony arrests, received over 100 Detroit Police Department honors. Moreover, he was awarded the Michigan Police Chiefs Association Medal.
According to the book description, Good Cops, Bad Verdict “is Detroit police officer Larry Nevers’s own
account of how a good arrest turned into a nightmare that left a stubbornly resisting cocaine user dead and two respected
veteran policeman on trial for murder. Nevers, at the time only a few months from retirement as one of the city’s most
decorated cops, was convicted in a racially charged trial broadcast on national television. Nevers explains in compelling
detail the reasons he believes it was the criminal justice system, not he and his partner, that ran amok in the matter of
Malice Green’s death.”
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