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Series I. Criminal Justice, 1974-2015 (bulk, 1978-1982). 2 Linear feet
Scope and ContentsThis series includes material from Scoppetta's positions as Commissioner of Investigation for the City of New York (1972–1977) and Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice (1976–1978). There is significant coverage of NYPD Detective Robert Leuci's cooperation with the Knapp Commission's investigation of police corruption. The series also contains course readings for the seminar Scoppetta taught for New York University School of Law—"The Administration of Criminal Justice"—between 1979 and 1982. A small amount of printed matter, much of it on police corruption, rounds out the series.
ArrangementSeries I is divided into three subseries, each arranged chronologically: |
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Subseries I.A. Criminal Justice: General, 1974-2015
Scope and ContentsThis subseries spans Scoppetta's years in the administrations of Mayors Beame and Lindsay in his capacity as Commissioner of Investigation for the City of New York (1972–1977) and Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice (1976–1978). It includes a significant amount of material on NYPD Detective Robert "Bob" Leuci's cooperation with the Knapp Commission's investigations into police and criminal justice system corruption (Box 1, Folders 11-16). Leuci's involvement inspired former NYPD Commissioner Robert Daley to write Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much (1978), which was later filmed by director Sidney Lumet.
ArrangementThe material is arranged chronologically (Box 1, Folders 1-10), followed by the contents of an accordion file Scoppetta labeled "Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice / Det[ective]. Bob Leuci" (Box 1, Folders 11-16). Newsclippings come at the end of this subseries (Box 1, Folder 17). |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 1 | [Criminal Justice: Beame appointments]
Scope and Contents NoteCertificates signed by Mayor Abraham D. Beame appointing Scoppetta Commissioner of Investigation (1 January 1974) and Chairman of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (1 March 1976). Includes a printout of a 2011 e-mail from Scoppetta, "My take on my five years as DOI Commissioner." |
1974, 1976, 2011 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 2 | [Criminal Justice: General] |
1977-1981 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 3 | [Criminal Justice: "Getting Away With Murder"]
Scope and Contents NoteTwo copies of the Saturday Review, 10 June 1978, containing Nicholas Scoppetta's article "Getting Away With Murder: Our Disastrous Court System." |
1978 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 4 | [Criminal Justice:] Police & Official / Corruption—Denver / Seminar |
1989 March 8 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 5 | [Criminal Justice:] FBI Conference
Scope and Contents NoteNotes from the FBI's "Advanced Public Corruption Conference" held at Phoenix, Arizona. |
1990 June 10 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 6 | [Criminal Justice: LaGuardia oral history]
Scope and Contents NoteTwo typescript copies (one annotated) of Scoppetta's oral history interview for the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York. Includes two letters from Richard K. Lieberman, Director of the Archives. |
1995 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 7 | [Criminal Justice:] Police Comm. Re: Litigation Mayor v City Council |
1995 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 8 | [Criminal Justice:] Re: Ex. Order City Council |
1995 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 9 | [Criminal Justice: General]
Scope and Contents NoteManuscript notes headed "What Do We Expect Our C. J. System To Do." |
n.d. | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 10 | [Criminal Justice: Lindsay remembrance]
Scope and Contents NoteContains the book John V. Lindsay: 50th Anniversary Commemoration of His Election as Mayor of New York City, November 2, 1965. Reflections from More Than 260 Friends and Colleagues (McLean, Va.: International Publishers, 2015), to which Scoppetta contributed a remembrance (pp. 375-376). Lindsay appointed Scoppetta Commissioner of Investigation for the City of New York on 1 December 1972. |
2015 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 11 | [Criminal Justice: Leuci] Relevant Notes / Leuci
Scope and Contents NoteFrom an accordion file Scoppetta labeled "Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice / Det[ective]. Bob Leuci." |
1970-1978 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 12 | [Criminal Justice: Leuci] Bob Daley, Manuscript of "Prince of the City"
Scope and Contents NotePartial draft of Robert Daley's book Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978). From an accordion file Scoppetta labeled "Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice / Det[ective]. Bob Leuci." |
circa 1977 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 13 | [Criminal Justice: Leuci] Draft of LW's [Loudon Wainwright] Article on "Prince..."
Investigation
Scope and Contents NoteWith a photocopy of "A Dangerous Gift of Recall," another piece Wainwright wrote for LIFE Magazine (October 1981). From an accordion file Scoppetta labeled "Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice / Det[ective]. Bob Leuci." |
n.d., 1981 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 14 | [Criminal Justice: Leuci]
Scope and Contents NoteIncludes Department of Investigation memorandum to all NYC Administrators and Agency Heads regarding the "implementation of Mayoral Executive Order No. 21 dated 19 August 1970 and Mayoral Executive Order No. 1 dated 1 January 1974." With Scoppetta's remarks to Domestic and International Scientific Planning, Annalysis and Cooperation (DISPAC) Sub-Committee Hearings, 10 January 1978, and a copy of the First Annual Report of the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice for the City of New York, January 1978. From an accordion file Scoppetta labeled "Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice / Det[ective]. Bob Leuci." |
1974, 1978 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 15-16 | [Criminal Justice: Leuci] Knapp Commission / "Prince of the City" Articles (2 folders)
Scope and Contents NoteFrom an accordion file Scoppetta labeled "Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice / Det[ective]. Bob Leuci." |
1974-1981 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 17 | [Criminal Justice: Newsclippings]
Scope and Contents NoteFive newsclippings, including Scoppetta's op-ed piece "Should Judges Jail Suspects?" from Newsday, 4 May 1979. |
1974, 1979, 1982, 2007 | |
Subseries I.B. Criminal Justice: Teaching Material, 1978-1982
Scope and ContentsIn 1978 Scoppetta joined the faculty of New York University School of Law as Director of the Institute of Judicial Administration and Professor of Law. In 1979 he took over from Adjunct Professor Richard H. Kuh the seminar "The Administration of Criminal Justice," which he taught until 1982.
ArrangementProfessor Kuh's course materials from the spring term of 1978 are found in Box 1, Folders 18-19. Scoppetta's adaptions follow and are arranged by seminar session number. Sessions 4, 9, and 11 were conducted on field trips, hence the lack of material for those meetings. Note the alternate version of session 12 (Box 2, Folder 4), presumably from the first (1979) iteration of the course. |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 18-19 | [Kuh seminar: sessions I-XIII] (2 folders) |
1978 Spring | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 20 | [Scoppetta seminar: session 1] Syllabus and assignment instructions
Scope and Contents NoteIncludes two student papers. |
1979-1982 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 21 | [Scoppetta seminar: session 2] The Police |
1979-1982 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 22 | [Scoppetta seminar: session 3] The Prosecutor and Prosecutorial Discretion |
1979-1982 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 23 | [Scoppetta seminar: session 5] The Grand Jury |
1979-1982 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 24 | [Scoppetta seminar: session 6] Bail and Pre-Trial Detention |
1979-1982 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 25-26 | [Scoppetta seminar: session 7] Plea Bargaining (2 folders) |
1979-1982 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 27 | [Scoppetta seminar: session 8] The Exclusionary Rule |
1979-1982 | |
| Offsite-Box: 1 | Folder : 28 | [Scoppetta seminar: sessions 10 and 12] Sentences and The Media and Criminal Trials |
1979-1982 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 1-2 | [Scoppetta seminar: session 13] Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System (2 folders) |
1979-1982 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 3 | [Scoppetta seminar: session 14] Alternatives to the Criminal Courts |
1979-1982 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 4 | [Scoppetta seminar, 1979 iteration: session 12] The Trial Jury |
1979-1982 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 5 | References, Bail & Media Law, "Criminal Court" -- Rothwax |
1979-1982 | |
Subseries I.C. Criminal Justice: Printed Material, 1941-2000
Scope and ContentsA small amount of printed matter, mostly on the theme of police corruption.
ArrangementThis material is filed chronologically by date of publication. |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 6 | Harold Seidman, Investigating Municipal Administration: A Study of the New York City Department of
Investigation (New York: Columbia University Institute of Public Administration).
Scope and Contents NoteBound photocopy. |
1941 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 7 | Evaluation of the Office of the Special Prosecutor, State of New York
Scope and Contents NoteStamped "CONFIDENTIAL / LEAA EVALUATION / REPORT #70." [LEAA = Law Enforcement Assistance Administration] |
1975 April | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 8 | State of New York Commission of Investigation, The Nadjari Office and the Press |
1976 November 18 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 9 | Richard S. Winslow and David W. Burke, Rogues, Rascals & Heroes: A History of the New York City Department of Investigation,
1873 to 1992.
Scope and Contents NoteBound typescript version of revised book, below. |
1992 June | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 9 | Richard S. Winslow and David W. Burke, Rogues, Rascals & Heroes: A History of the New York City Department of Investigation,
1873 to 1993 (New York City Department of Investigation Corruption Prevention and Management Review
Bureau).
Scope and Contents NotePublished version of bound typescript, above. |
1993 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 10 | The City of New York, Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption and
the Anti-Corruption Procedures of the Police Department, Commission Report
Scope and Contents NoteInscribed on flyleaf "NICK SCOPPETTA." |
1994 July 7 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 11 | The City of New York, Commission to Combat Police Corruption, First Report of the Commission [loose typescript]. |
1996 February | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 12 | The City of New York, Commission to Combat Police Corruption, First Report of the Commission [bound version]. |
1996 March 25 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 12 | The City of New York, Commission to Combat Police Corruption, The New York City Police Department: The Role and Utilization of the Integrity Control
Officer |
1996 December 12 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 12 | The City of New York, Commission to Combat Police Corruption, The New York City Police Department's Disciplinary System: How the Department Disciplines
Its Members Who Make False Statements |
1996 December 12 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 12 | The City of New York, Commission to Combat Police Corruption, Executive Summary |
1996 December 12 | |
| Offsite-Box: 2 | Folder : 13 | Journal of Law and Policy vol. IX, no. 1.
Scope and Contents NoteThe David G. Trager Public Policy Symposium, "Behind Closed Doors: Secret Justice in America." Scoppetta sat on Panel III: Secrecy and the Juvenile Justice System. With an offprint of Panel III papers. |
2000 | |
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