This enraged the police so badly, that they decided to actually share information between the secret police and the robbery squad.
John Nolan, then a senior detective on the robbery squad, did not arrive at the diner until after many of the victims had received medical aid.
The officers knew that detectives were investigating the case, and they turned the matter over to the robbery squad.
Homicide detectives do not keep to themselves, nor do drug agents or robbery squad or auto theft investigators.
The fifth, Detective Arthur Williams, was working with the robbery squad.
According to the Nassau County police, 65 percent of the suspects arrested by the county's robbery squad lived in New York City.
For six years he worked on the robbery squad covering North London.
That is because the Police Department has historically separated robbery squads by borough, since robbery patterns tend to be confined.
One day in early September, the lights flicked on in the office of the new citywide robbery squad for the first time.
Today, he works out of the 75th Precinct, in East New York, Brooklyn, assigned to the robbery squad.