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Edward W. Conlon (born 1965) is an American author and former New York Police Department (NYPD) officer.

Born in the Bronx, Conlon spent most of his childhood in nearby Yonkers, and attended Regis High School. He graduated from Harvard in 1987, then traveled abroad in the former Yugoslavia and worked as a liaison for an alternative sentencing organization in Brooklyn.

In 1995 Conlon joined the New York Police Department. Conlon's police experience focused on patrolling city-owned public housing developments, as well as arresting street-level drug dealers after observing their sales from surveillance posts. In 2002, he was promoted to the rank of detective and was assigned to the Bronx's 44th Precinct. He retired as a Detective Second Grade in 2011 after 16 years with the department.