Exclusive | NYPD patrol car beloved cop was executed in by drug deal was left for ruin— until now
The estimated $30,000 restoration effort is a labor of love for about a dozen retired officers who will ask the NYPD to install the car at the Police Academy in Queens so young cops can learn about Byrne, 22, who was guarding the home of a witness in a drug dealer’s criminal case on Feb. 26, 1988, when he was murdered.