Steve Oram, Parminder Nagra and Maanuv Thiara Photo: HTM (DI RAY) Ltd. In his new book, “The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia,” reporter-historian Paul Moses writes about the NYPD officers who fought the extortion racket known as the Black Hand during the early part of the 20th century—and did so from a position of ethnic familiarity. Immigrants fighting immigrants, Italians battling Italians, crime fighters operating from within the community that was being preyed upon.

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Persons: Steve Oram, Parminder, Maanuv, RAY, “, Paul Moses Organizations: Mafia, Immigrants