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[Music] [Music] this is a true story about absolute madness and how a paranoid schizophrenic
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serial bomber used gunpowder and homemade explosives to bring chaos and fear to New York the following is an
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excerpt from the book incendiary by Michael canal the NYPD certainly didn't understand it the famously tough-minded
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New York detectives stumbled and fumbled as a harassing band of newspaper reporters detailed at every turn for
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more than a century the police had relied on muscle and shoe leather to collar bad guys the street corner
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respected the billy club and that was that but reliable strong our methods proved useless in the face of a
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schizophrenic serial bomber seldom in the history of New York wrote The Associated Press has a case proved
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such torment to police the Bombers rampage came at a time when science was transforming the way Americans thought
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about the world around them Jonas Salk came up with the polio vaccine eradicating a disease that crippled
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hundreds of thousands Bell Labs paved the way for modern electronics and all that came with it by inventing the
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silicon transistor physicist Edward Teller created the hydrogen bomb scientific advancements however did not
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elevate policing at least not in New York the NYPD's corrupt precinct captains and stubborn commanders
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resisted new methods promoted by college-educated criminologist until a serial bomber forced them to adapt
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