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.
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[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.
After injuring his ankle in a skydiving accident, Dietl retired from the NYPD in March 1985 (rather than take a desk job) and went on to found Beau Dietl & Associates, specializing in corporate investigations for major international companies. Among his clients are Columbia Pictures, Coca-Cola, Grey Advertising, PaineWebber, Lehman Brothers, Bankers Trust and the Saudi Royal Family.
[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, during which appearance he stated that Muslim terrorists would, if given the opportunity, "scramble your ballbag up with some lamb, and eat your ballbag." 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." Dietl appeared again on Your World Cavuto on January 17, 2007 arguing that Muslim cab drivers should not be able to discriminate against customers carrying alcohol or dogs. In the same interview, Dietl cited the fictional t.v. series "24" as evidence of Muslim terrorists living in and plotting to attack the U.S., saying [3] "The fact of the matter is, I mean, you don't watch '24?' On Fox TV? They're out there. They're out there. There are cells out there.".
