“The Rochester Street Massacre”

Twenty-three miles east of us, by the corner of Dexter and West Chicago, in Detroit’s near north side, several black Wayne County sheriff deputies were facing something much more ominous than freezing weather. They were experiencing a cop’s worst nightmare.

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AuthorRobert Ankony
CategoriesPolice behavior, Police corruption, Criminal behavior, blue on blue, friendly fire
TagsRobert Ankony, Aaron Vincent, Henry "Hank" Henderson, David E. Davis, Henry Duvall, James Jenkins, Lorenzo Hart, Jimmy Fowlkes, Al Wallace, Ronald Martin, James Harris, Virgil Starkey, David Marshall, Dennis Shiemke, Ruth Ankony, Sheriff William Lucas, Commissioner John Nichols, Prosecutor William Cahalan, Mayor Coleman Young, Wayne County Sheriff's Department, Detroit Police Department, Detroit Police STRESS, "mad dog killers", Robert Bradford, Michael Geldmacher, "Rochester Street Massacre", Metropolitan Narcotics Bureau
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Four Second-Floor Narcotics Stories

It was a hot summer afternoon in 1971, and I was a 22-year-old undercover narcotics officer in the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department, with a year and a half on the job. I was also a former US Army Ranger with a year in Vietnam. We were in Detroit’s east side, getting ready to make a raid.

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AuthorRobert Ankony
CategoriesDetroit crime 1971, Drug culture, Criminal behavior, Police behavior, Police use of force
TagsRobert Ankony, Sheriff William Lucas, Vahan Kapagian, John Sinclair, Jimmy Fowlkes, Lorenzo Hart, Bill Sherwood, Gerald Scotti, Mel Turner, Michael Geldmacher, Al Wallace, William Pack, Wayne County Sheriff's Department, Metropolitan Narcotics Bureau, Detroit Police Department, Sheriff Robert Ficano
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