Based on a true story, "The Prince of the City" is about this NYPD Detective working narcotics, and how he turned crooked because he believed everybody else was doing it anyway, and then how he wound up fighting corruption or something and all the stuff that happened to him because of that. Anyhow, that's how they presented it in the movie. What really happened was that this cop got his tallywhacker caught in a crack, and then he got himself out of this tight place by turning in a bunch of other cops who weren't nearly as dirty as he was. There wasn't a damned bit of altruism in it--but Hell, you know Hollywood.
After reading Robert Leuci's [ the real prince of the city] new book "All The Centurions" which came out this July 2005, I've had a change of heart as to how I feel about him. I find him to be an idealist man that cares about people, and was once a good cop that tried to do the right thing, but was pulled into a cesspool of a corrupt legal system. As a young street cop he could relate to those that lived in the ghetto, and never looked down on them as if he were better... This is something he learned from his Italian father. He was not one to use the word spic or the N-word when dealing with those of other ethnic background, as some white cops--not all-- at times would do. As a young rookie cop in the mean streets of the concrete jungle, he felt as I once felt as a cop: a prince in shining armor protecting the innocent against a predator that would devour them. Read his book and see what I mean. PS: Tallywhacker is slang for penis. Also hope my new added comments are updated to the present page -Joe Sanchez Picon
After reading Robert Leuci's [ the real prince of the city] new book "All The Centurions" which came out this July 2005, I've had a change of heart as to how I feel about him. I find him to be an idealist man that cares about people, and was once a good cop that tried to do the right thing, but was pulled into a cesspool of a corrupt legal system. As a young street cop he could relate to those that lived in the ghetto, and never looked down on them as if he were better... This is something he learned from his Italian father. He was not one to use the word spic or the N-word when dealing with those of other ethnic background, as some white cops--not all-- at times would do. As a young rookie cop in the mean streets of the concrete jungle, he felt as I once felt as a cop: a prince in shining armor protecting the innocent against a predator that would devour them. Read his book and see what I mean. PS: Tallywhacker is slang for penis. Also hope my new added comments are updated to the present page -Joe Sanchez Picon