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Milton Mollen, right, then deputy mayor for public safety, with Mayor David N. Dinkins in 1992.
G. Paul Burnett/The New York Times; thumbnail, Librado Romero/The New York Times, 2010
Milton Mollen
Died on August 14, 2017 at age 97
Mr. Mollen led a commission that found that the New York City Police Department had been “willfully blind” to drug-related corruption by organized bands of rogue officers in the 1980s and early ’90s.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.