Report To The Commissioner

Description for REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER: In June 1971 Bo Lockley, the youngest detective on the New York City police force, tracked down and then shot and killer another detective, narcotics undercover agent patricia Butler, in a Times Square loft. Less than thirty-six hours later, Lockley was arrested and charged with murder in the first degree. The resulting scandal split the New York City Police Department wide open. The chief of the narcotics bureau retired under pressure and the captain in charge of all undercovers was suspended. Almost every man in the narcotics bureau was either reassigned or retired, and the entire detective division went through a complete reorganization. The Police Commissioner demanded from the Internal Affairs Division a complete, highly confidential report on the Lockley-Butler incident. That report---in the form of transcripts of taped interviews with various participants as well as the Police Department documents pertaining to the Butler H