One Tough Cop: The Bo Dietl Story

In an age of rampant corruption and violence, Richard Bo Dietl was the strongest cop on New York’s meanest streets – and he did things his way, no holds barred. In fifteen years he made over 1,400 felony arrests compared to the average cop’s career total of 180. But after 75 medals and awards, and countless brushes with death, he broke the city’s most notorious case – the Harlem convent rape – and faced a blue wall of police department resentments and politics. He knew his time was coming to an end.

The Bo Dietl Story

From his rookie days to the dangerous work on the police decoy unit to his moonlighting as a bodyguard for Arab sheiks, this is the true story of the maverick cop who made the busts, the headlines and the controversies. Now Bo Dietl tells what it’s really like inside the raw and deadly world of a big-city cop – and how one man became a legend from the station house to the streets.