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"Dog Day Afternoon"--How One Bank Robbery Changed NYPD

Forty years ago on August 22, 1972, a bank robbery at a Chase bank in Gravesend, Brooklyn changed the way the NYPD did business in hostage situations...and spawned an Oscar-winning movie starring Al Pacino.

By MARY MURPHY

August 22, 2012

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