On May 25, 2023, DEA President Paul DiGiacomo spoke about trailblazing female Detective Lucille Burrascano to NBC News New York. Det. Burrascano passed away on May 24, 2023 at the age of 79.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/remembering-the-nypds-first-female-patrol-officer/4367823/
For more backstory on Det. Burrascano, John Jay College of Criminal Justice published this online profile in their ePortfolios Directory of graduates:
https://johnjay.digication.com/the_life_and_times_of_lucille_burrascano/One_Day_after_Another
If you subscribe to the New York Times online, you will have access to their November 15, 1972 front page article on then-Patrol Officers Lucille Burrascano and her partner Kathaline Salzano, the first wave of women to handle routine patrol in the NYPD’s long history. Search their archive to read this important piece of NYPD history.
