Author Michael Cannell joins us on the latest episode of The Untapped New York Podcast!

The actor tells PEOPLE that police officers stop him in the streets to tell him he’s “1,000%” believable as a detective Steve Schirripa apparently has the NYPD’s unofficial seal of approval!

"Blood and the Badge" by Michael Cannell is the tale of two NYPD officers who were paid to provide information and even kill for the Mob.

The union that represents city detectives is set to unveil a first-in-the-country program to provide NYPD investigators ... The initiative comes after a trio of police officers were busted for ...

when two NYPD detectives, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, provided Lucchese and Gambino crime "bosses" with insider information on investigations and police informants and even assassinated ...