The Police Department took a long-delayed step July 14 toward rectifying a shameful disservice done by the Lindsay administration when it named a department harbor boat in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park section after a police officer who was murdered in Harlem 43 years ago.
Patrolman Phillip Cardillo, who was fatally shot on April 14, 1972 after he and his partner responded to a false report about an officer needing assistance at one of the Harlem mosques of the Nation of Islam, suffered the added indignity of then-Mayor John Lindsay and Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy not attending his funeral.
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