Barney Ruditsky
| Barnett P. Ruditsky | |
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| Born |
December 25, 1898 London, England, UK |
| Died | October 18, 1962 (aged 63) Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Other names | Barney |
| Relatives | Martin Ruditsky (son) |
| Awards |
 - NYPD Combat Cross
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| Police career | |
| Department | New York City Police Department (NYPD) |
| Badge number | 5647 (officer) |
| Years of service | 1921 - October 19, 1941 |
| Rank | 1921 - Commissioned as a Patrolman 1924 - Promoted to Detective |
| Other work | Private detective, nightclub owner, technical advisor for film and television |
Barnett "Barney" P. Ruditsky (December 25, 1898 – October 18, 1962) was a British-born American police officer and private detective.
Ruditsky was born in 1898 in London, England. He arrived in New York City with his family at age 10 and later served in the United States Army during the Pancho Villa Expedition and World War I. Returning to New York, he joined the New York City Police Department (NYPD) in 1921. During his 20-year career on the force Ruditsky was among the NYPD's prominent "celebrity detectives" of the 1920s and 1930s. Ruditsky was associated with many criminal cases during this period, most notably, ending with the break up of Murder Incorporated in 1940. Years later, he was called to testify before the Kefauver hearings due to his knowledge of the criminal underworld in Southern California and Las Vegas.
Following his retirement from the NYPD in 1941, Ruditsky moved to Los Angeles, California where he became a private investigator and nightclub owner. His later career as a private eye in Hollywood aroused controversy due to his association with gangland figures such as Mickey Cohen and Bugsy Siegel as well as his investigation of film star Marilyn Monroe, the latter resulting in the infamous "Wrong Door Raid" in 1954. Ruditsky also served as a technical advisor on a series of crime films for 20th Century Fox in the mid-1940s and eventually became involved in creating The Lawless Years (1959–61), a television series loosely based on his time as a NYPD police detective during Prohibition.
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