MEET LOU TELANO
A strong no-nonsense veteran of the New York City Police Department, Lou Telano’s career in Law Enforcement spanned over 5 decades. Lou’s career began back in the early 60’s as a New York City Correction Officer at “The Halls of Justice” a historic facility commonly known as the “The Tombs.”
Lou became an undercover officer that his career began to take off. Detective Telano soon achieved the reputation as one of the most innovative and one of the toughest cops in New York City. Along with his partner John Sepe, they are credited with one of the highest number of arrests in New York City’s history.
So successful where there methods for taking punks off the street that the undercover team was soon deemed The Lone Ranger and Tonto. Their days often found them trying to preserve their anonymity by dressing up in disguises so as not to alert their suspects.
Lou and his partner often materialized as construction workers, Good Humor men, insurance salesmen, junkies, and as Hassidic rabbis; they even reverted to their prior occupations as sanitation workers to crack a major drug ring. Through it all, Lou and his partner escaped unscathed during several knife fights and many shootouts. Soon thereafter Hollywood took notice and the duo became the inspiration behind the hit TV Series Starsky & Hutch!
