Lawrence Byrne, Former Lawyer for New York Police, Dies at 61
His younger brother, a police officer, was assassinated by a drug gang at 22, a key moment in the city’s crack epidemic of the 1980s.
Lawrence M. Byrne in 2016, when the was the New York Police Department’s deputy commissioner for legal affairs. He served for four years in that post, managing roughly 100 lawyers who handled all legal issues involving the department and its 56,000 employees.Credit.Jake Naughton for The New York Times
Dec. 12, 2020
Lawrence M. Byrne, who as the top lawyer for the New York City Police Department defended several hotly disputed police policies and who also kept alive the legacy of his brother, a rookie police officer who was executed by a drug gang, died on Dec. 6 in Manhattan. He was 61.