NYPL: Bridging Our Stories - Detective Thomas Troppmann of the NYPD's 34th Precinct
Meet Detective Specialist Thomas Troppmann of the 34th Precinct, which covers Washington Heights and Inwood.
Detective Troppmann has spent his entire 30- year career on patrol in uptown Manhattan, a rarity for one officer to remain on patrol for that long AND in the same precinct. He was a rookie police officer the same year his new partner, Detective Specialist Edwin Rodriguez, was born. These two have partnered up for the NYPD's newest community based policing program, Neighborhood Coordination Officers, a more high tech and targeted brand of beat cop.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Detective Troppmann talks about the changes he's witnessed in "MY neighborhood", how he feels about body cams, changes in technology since he came on the job, his relationship with his partner Rodriguez, being mistaken for Police Commissioner James O'Neill, corruption, getting older, and how the jocular relationship of the locker room evaporated into a silent, sad stillness following the death of Police Officer Michael Buczek in 1988.
Click on this link to listen: http://oralhistory.nypl.org/interviews/detective-thomas-troppman-4djo8u
Please note: NYPL Oral Histories are not edited. There's an extra question after the thank you at the end so keep listening. The interview is not yet searchable on the NYPL but we're getting there!
Detective Troppmann has spent his entire 30- year career on patrol in uptown Manhattan, a rarity for one officer to remain on patrol for that long AND in the same precinct. He was a rookie police officer the same year his new partner, Detective Specialist Edwin Rodriguez, was born. These two have partnered up for the NYPD's newest community based policing program, Neighborhood Coordination Officers, a more high tech and targeted brand of beat cop.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Detective Troppmann talks about the changes he's witnessed in "MY neighborhood", how he feels about body cams, changes in technology since he came on the job, his relationship with his partner Rodriguez, being mistaken for Police Commissioner James O'Neill, corruption, getting older, and how the jocular relationship of the locker room evaporated into a silent, sad stillness following the death of Police Officer Michael Buczek in 1988.
Click on this link to listen: http://oralhistory.nypl.org/interviews/detective-thomas-troppman-4djo8u
Please note: NYPL Oral Histories are not edited. There's an extra question after the thank you at the end so keep listening. The interview is not yet searchable on the NYPL but we're getting there!
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