The operation netted about $40,000 a day, he said.
Military operations have netted only a handful of reputed organized crime members among the 160 people detained.
The operations, which ended in August, netted $4 million worth of supernotes with narcotics and counterfeit versions of name brand cigarettes.
The operation, one of the largest roundups in a police corruption case, netted two sons of former police chiefs.
The operation netted about $2.3 million over the course of the six-month investigation, the police said.
Such an operation would normally net no more than a handful of petty criminals totally unrelated to the case.
The four-hour operation netted nine detainees and 38 illegal weapons.
The operation netted more fugitives than any other initiative of its kind in American law enforcement, officials said.
The operation, conducted by 700 police and intelligence officers, netted more than 1,000 pounds of a fertilizer compound that can be used in explosives.
The operation netted 30,000 pirated tapes and the arrests of 39 shopkeepers at 35 stores.