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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Operation Sunrise: A Look Back At How The Cops And The Feds Tried To Take Back The North Philadelphia "Badlands" From the Drug Gangs

Back in 1999, I visited the “Roundhouse,” the nickname of the Philadelphia Police headquarters, and interviewed then-First Deputy Police Commissioner Sylvester M. Johnson for Counterterrorism magazine.

I spoke to Johnson, who would go on to become the police commissioner, about Operation Sunrise, the joint Philadelphia Police-DEA operation to rout the drug gangs that dominated the “Badlands” in Noth Philadelphia.

I later toured the Badlands with a veteran detective.

You can read the Counterterrorism magazine piece below:

Thursday, May 20, 2021

The Best 'Jack' In Town: My Philadelphia Weekly Crime Beat Column On Two Assistant U.S. Attorneys Who Took Down South Philly Drug Gang

Philadelphia Weekly published my Crime Beat column on the two federal prosecutors who took down a South Philadelphia drug organization that operated 24/7.

You can read the column via the below link or the below pages (click on it to enlarge):

The best ‘jack’ in town - Philadelphia Weekly

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Irish Mobsters Threaten To Kill Crime Reporters

Dana Kennedy at the Daily Beast offers a piece on Irish gangsters threatening crime reporters.

Covering drug-related crime in Dublin in 1996 was so dangerous that gangsters murdered one of the country’s toughest journalists, 37-year-old Veronica Guerin, just to shut her up.

Almost 20 years later, some of the same crime fraternity that Guerin fought so relentlessly to expose have gotten more powerful and violent—with a reach that extends to their new base on Spain’s Costa del Sol and as far away as China.

A complicated new feud between two men long identified by Irish media as smooth, old-school Irish gangsters, Christy “The Dapper Don” Kinahan and Gerry “The Monk” Hutch—ignited by younger, dumber gang members and possibly a Northern Ireland Republican dissident—is like something right out of Ireland’s cult gangland TV series Love/Hate, and blood is spilling all over Dublin.

Police have warned some Dublin crime reporters that they are in such danger from drug lords angry at being written about that they should leave their homes.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/16/amid-the-irish-mafia-bloodbath-attempts-to-silence-the-press.html

Paul Davis

Paul Davis is a writer who covers crime. He has written extensively about organized crime, cybercrime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, the military, espionage and terrorism. He is a contributor to the Washington Examiner, and his work has also appeared in the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Daily News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Weekly and other publications. His 'Crime Beat' column, which covers crime news, crime issues and crime prevention in South Philadelphia, appears weekly in the South Philly Review, and his 'On Crime' column, which covers crime in the Greater Philadelphia region, appears weekly at Philly Daily and Broad and Liberty. He is also a longtime contributor to Counterterrorism magazine and writes their online 'Threatcon' column, which covers crime, espionage and terrorism. Paul Davis' crime fiction appears in American Crime Magazine. As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations. He has interviewed police commissioners and chiefs, FBI, DEA, HSI and other federal special agents, prosecutors, judges, public officials, WWII UDT frogmen, Navy SEALs, Army Delta operators, Israeli commandos, military intelligence officers, Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, former KGB officers, film and TV actors, film writers, directors and producers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, gamblers, outlaw bikers, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 17 in 1970. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War and he later served two years aboard the Navy harbor tugboat U.S.S. Saugus at the U.S. floating nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch, Scotland. He went on to become the civilian administrative officer of a Defense Department command in Philadelphia, where he oversaw security, safety and other programs for the command's military and civilian employees, and served as an investigating officer, while working part-time as a newspaper crime reporter and columnist. He retired in 2007 after more than 37 Navy/DOD years of service and became a full-time writer. From 1991 to 2005 he was a producer and on-air host of "Inside Government," a public affairs interview radio program that aired on Sunday mornings on WPEN AM and WMGK FM in the Philadelphia area. You can read Paul Davis' crime columns, crime fiction, book reviews and news and feature articles on this website. You can read his full bio by clicking on the above photo (by Brittany Davis-Pearson). And you can contact Paul Davis at pauldavisoncrime@aol.com.

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