Richard Dietl

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Richard "Bo" Dietl is a former New York City Police Department detective.

Dietl currently serves as Chairman of the New York State Security Guard Advisory Council, appointed by Governor George Pataki in 1995.

1 NYPD Career
2 Film
3 Radio and Television
4 External links

[edit] NYPD Career

Perhaps the most famous and notorious case Dietl worked on was known as the Harlem convent rape. He investigated and brought to custody the two young males involved in the assault and rape of a nun in Spanish Harlem, New York, United States. Rumours said that Dietl managed to close the case with the collaboration of mobsters belonging to the cosa nostra with whom he became and remained close friends.

With over 1,500 felony arrests and a 95 percent conviction rate, Dietl is one of the most decorated officers in the history of New York City Police Department. Dietl also held the highest arrest record during a ten-years period.

Dietl retired from the NYPD in March 1985, and went on to found Beau Dietl & Associates, specializing in corporate investigations for major international companies.

[edit] Film

In 1998 Dietl's biography "One Tough Cop: The Bo Dietl Story" was made into a film of the same name starring Stephen Baldwin as Bo Dietl.[1]

The plot in Abel Ferrara's crime drama "Bad Lieutenant" is mainly inspired by Dietl's investigation of the rape of a young nun. Dietl played a role in the movie, which had Harvey Keitel as the anti-hero, as one of the investigating detectives.

[edit] Radio and Television

Dietl is a frequent guest of Don Imus on the Imus in the Morning radio program on WFAN and simulcast on MSNBC. He has also appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In an August 2006 appearance [2] on Fox News's Your World with Neil Cavuto, Dietl argued that Arabs and Muslims should be subjected to racial profiling, stating that Islam is a "Johnny-come-lately" religion and Muslims "pray to someone who wants to kill you."