11/10/2025
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2025
New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/)
Edward Arrigoni, 91, Dies; His ‘Cop-Shot’ Charity Rewards Tipsters
A bus company executive, he founded an organization that offers $10,000 for information on gunmen who assault police. Its posters are ubiquitous in the New York area.
Edward Arrigoni, a bus company owner from the Bronx, founded Cop-Shot in 1984 to reward tips about shootings of law enforcement officers.
(https://www.nytimes.com/by/sam-roberts)
By Sam Roberts (https://www.nytimes.com/by/sam-roberts)
Nov. 6, 2025
Edward Arrigoni, a bus company owner from the Bronx who came up with the idea of offering $10,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of gunmen who shoot New York area law enforcement officers, died on Sept. 29 at his home in Greenwich, Conn. He was 91.
His death was confirmed this week by his daughter Jeanne O’Reilly.
Mr. Arrigoni established Cop-Shot (https://www.copshot.org/) in 1984, with him and a group of friends initially contributing $1,000 each in cooperation with the New York Police Department and the Police Benevolent Association. Since then, the organization has distributed some 30 rewards to tipsters who called Cop-Shot’s telephone hotline (1-800-COP-SHOT) with information.
Detectives deemed those anonymous tipsters instrumental in successfully prosecuting suspects who killed or wounded officers from the New York Police Department, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, as well as New York State Troopers and Amtrak police serving in the metropolitan area.
The organization’s eye-grabbing bumper stickers, billboards and bus advertisements — punctuated with a blood-like splatter of crimson — were intended to serve not only as an investigative tool, but also as a deterrent, warning miscreants that bystanders, neighbors and even relatives might be tempted by a hefty reward to turn them in.
