"A shocking scandal led to O'Dwyer's demise. It involved mob-connected bookies taking bets from kids outside of schools and scores of police inspectors protecting the predators in exchange for a piece of the action."
"Although it is absent from most histories of the NYPD, the mid-20th-century corruption scandal ultimately brought down Mayor O'Dwyer, a former police officer, judge and Brooklyn district attorney."
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