Captain Richie Taylor is the NYPD’s highest-ranking officer who wears a yarmulke in uniform
Photos: Naftoli Goldgrab
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e’re on Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets, standing in front of Trump Tower, where Captain Richie Taylor is about to do a security check.
Suddenly the radio crackles. “10-30 at Capital One, Broadway and 39th.” That means a bank robbery in progress.
Captain Taylor jumps in his car, and takes off down Fifth with an earsplitting screech. The speedometer rises as his unmarked car — a black Ford Police Interceptor, made special for the NYPD with a faster engine, extra power supply, radio access to all police and fire personnel in the city, a radio to issue commands to the street, and 20 red, white, and blue flashing lights — comes to life: lights flashing, siren blaring, Rumbler (a low-frequency siren that projects vibration onto the street) activated. Through the window of this runaway projectile, Richie Taylor appears laser-focused and calm.
On his way to the crime scene, he calls the captain of the precinct where the bank is located for an up-to-the-minute update: Turns out, the robber is on the loose.
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