Professional Biography
William L. Acosta is a graduate of PWU and Alliance University, a U.S. Army veteran, and a retired officer of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). He is the founder and CEO of Equalizer Private Investigations & Security Services Inc., a licensed investigative and security agency serving clients in New York and Florida with an international reach.
With 46 years of experience in the military, public safety, investigations, and criminal justice, Acosta has led complex investigations involving narcotics, homicides, missing persons, fraud, organized crime, and other high-profile matters. He has also worked on criminal defense investigations at both the state and federal levels in the United States.
A specialist in international and multi-jurisdictional cases, Acosta has coordinated investigations and operations across North America, Europe, and Latin America. His professional background includes work involving drug trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering, public corruption, and transnational crime.
He is the author of La Mafia Azul: Criminales con Placa (The Blue Mafia: Criminals with Badges) and El Tren de la Muerte (The Train of Death). His forthcoming book, Wilfully Blind: A Dirty Cop and the Department That Looked Away, was written in collaboration with Michael Dowd, a former NYPD officer. The book explores police corruption and the institutional failures that allowed misconduct to persist without meaningful intervention.
Wilfully Blind: A Dirty Cop and the Department That Looked Away will be available soon through Amazon and Kindle.
Acosta is also the host of Equalizer TV Online on YouTube, an interview and analysis platform covering international security, geopolitics, organized crime, immigration, public corruption, criminal justice, and current affairs.
