of view and is still investigating if the zoo is at fault. Zappala is currently in a dispute with Pittsburgh Public Safety Director Stephen A. Bucar over whether the city police bureau should change its eyewitness identification procedures. Zappala is urging the police bureau to discontinue its use of simultaneous photo arrays, in which witnesses are typically shown photos of six to eight suspects on one sheet of paper, in favor of sequential photo arrays, in which they are shown photos individually. In 2016, DA Zappala paid nearly $1,400 in bitcoin as ransom after his office computer network was taken hostage by the Avalanche phishing group. In 2019, Zappala was re-elected with 57 percent of the vote. https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/PA/Allegheny/98378/web.258506/#/detail/0114 In 2021, Zappala sent an email to his prosecutors instructing them not to offer plea deals a well-known black attorney who had criticized the criminal justice system. Shortly thereafter, an Allegheny County Common Pleas judge said he would no longer accept plea deals from Zappala's office, saying it was wrong to treat defendants differently based on who represents them. Personal life Zappala lives in suburban Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania with his wife, Mary. They have four sons. See also District Attorney Pittsburgh Police Allegheny County Sheriff Allegheny County Police Department References External links Office of the Allegheny County District Attorney official website 1957 births County district attorneys in Pennsylvania Duquesne University alumni Lawyers from Pittsburgh Living people Pennsylvania Democrats University of Delaware alumni University of Pittsburgh alumni Central Catholic High School (Pittsburgh) alumni