The former commander of the Bronx Homicide Squad, Lieutenant William Sean O’Toole, recently turned in his shield after four decades with the N.Y.P.D. In that time, he presided over 5,000 homicide investigations.
In modern policing, few people hold command for as long as O’Toole did. He grew up in the Bronx, and his mind for detail makes him a valuable repository of case histories, starting with the death of Iris Curro, age three, struck by a bullet intended for her father. Bronx Homicide caught the shooter by using beepers and a pay phone.
The city’s firefighters can work until the age of sixty-five; cops must be out by sixty-three. Days earlier, Keechant Sewell, the police commissioner, had unexpectedly stepped down after only eighteen months, reportedly because higher-ups wouldn’t let her do her job. O’Toole had had the opposite experience. He was always allowed to choose his own team.
In the office, O’Toole waved hello and goodbye to Detective Brianna Constantino, who was working one of the unsolved cases that bothered him the most: newborn twins, wrapped in a wee-wee pad and a garbage bag and dumped like trash. Bronx Homicide gave the boys names—Zain and Zeke—and a proper burial.
Bagpipes are brought out for police funerals and also for walkaways, when a retiring commander exits his or her post. A few days later, O’Toole left Fort Apache at around two, wearing his dress blues, flanked by an honor guard. Colleagues crowded the barricaded street. Timothy McCormack, the deputy chief, tearfully said a few words, calling O’Toole “a cop’s cop.”
Thomas O. McLaughlin, a Bronx Homicide sergeant, held a police radio to a microphone and let the crowd listen as a dispatcher read O’Toole into retirement: “Thank you for your forty-three years of dedicated, honorable service to the New York City Police Department and to the citizens of New York City.” O’Toole climbed into a ceremonial vehicle and was driven around the block. He had promised his detectives that he would always pick up the phone when they called. “I’m around,” he said.
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