Field Site:

New York City Department of Investigation

The Department of Investigation is one of the oldest law-enforcement agencies in the United States (founded in 1873 in the wake of the Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall scandals) and stands at the forefront of the battle against corruption in public institutions. The department investigates fraud, corruption, and waste in all city agencies and monitors all vendors to the City of New York. It works closely with other investigative agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the New York Police Department, and the New York State Attorney General to identify and fix potential corruption and to refer actual corruption cases to both state and federal prosecutors.

Students placed at the department learn how trained investigators, many of them former top prosecutors, monitor and try to remedy the plague of municipal bureaucracies everywhere.

Website:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doi
Students:
Ainsely O'Connell ‘06