Talk:Joseph Petrosino

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Lets see how fast we can get this catagorized, I tried to but im to dumb.....

"On Sicilians" removed
"Petrosino deeply hated those from Sicily and openly called them 'pigs'. A practice of his that abruptly stopped after he was hit with eighty shots from ambush."

This was removed due to no sources provided and is unabashedly biased. Furthermore, the description of the assassination does not help disassociate the "pigs" slur from the assassins, assuming they were Sicilian.

Re: The Black hand and Enrico Caruso paragraph. Per the NY Times March 6, 1910, Antonio Cincotti and Antonio Mesolie were arrested in Brooklyn for the extortion attempt on Caruso. The arresting officers were members of the NYPD's Italian Squad, Dets Michael Mealli and Paul Simonetti. The arrest was made on March 4, 1910. Petrosino was killed on March 9, 1909 - he could not have been involved in the Caruso case as stated in the Petrosino bio. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.125.247.131 (talk) 19:34, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

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I found this image of Detective Lt. Joseph Petrosiino(left), Inspector Carey and Inspector McCafferty escorting Mafia hitman Petto the Ox (Tomasso Petto, second from left) from the Library of congress. --Vic49 (talk)  22:27, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

In Memorials
In first item (Petrosino Square), improved accuracy and precision of location; replaced ref to Jackson with internal link to 240 Centre Street, which is more accessible and relevent; improved ref to Parks Dept. Website.

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Story of grandfather and Irish judge just a legend?
''"Joseph was sent with a young cousin (Antonio Puppolo) to live with his grandfather in New York City. A streetcar accident took the life of the grandfather, and the two young cousins wound up in Orphans/Surrogates Court. Rather than send the children to the orphanage, the judge took them home to his own family, and provided for the boys until relatives in Italy could be contacted and arrangements made to bring over family members. In consequence, Joseph Petrosino and his cousin Anthony Puppolo lived with a "politically connected" Irish household for some time, and this opened up educational and employment avenues not always available to more recent immigrants, especially Italian ones."

According to Stephan Talty (The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History, 2017) the whole story of grandfather, the Irish jduge, etc. is just a legend and not true. Talty believes, that the story is a further attempt to deny the ability of Italian immigrant culture to produce a person like Petrosino on their own.

See also

https://www.italyheritage.com/great-italians/history/petrosino-joe.htm

According to this source Petrosino's family (father, mother, two sisters, three brothers) emigrated 1873 (not 1874). Joe worked as newsboy, shoe-shine, and in the garbage sector before he joined the NY police. (No grandfather or judge raising Joe in this bio.)

Guaneri (talk) 07:08, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

The citations regarding the McKinley assassination provide no actual reference to Petrosino warning McKinley, or that he possessed such evidence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.243.51.191 (talk) 00:39, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

Crime fighting techniques that Petrosino pioneered
The sentence "Crime fighting techniques that Petrosino pioneered are still practiced by law enforcement agencies." appears in the first paragraph of this article but there is no source or citation for this statement. Nor is this statement explained in the rest of this article. What are the crime fighting techniques that were pioneered by Dt. Petrosino? And, are they still used or taught?