Doug is a US Army Military Police Veteran, former police officer, deputy sheriff and criminal investigator. What crooked cops have always failed to understand, or accept, even today, is that once they disgrace their badge by breaking the law, they are no longer cops — just criminals wearing a police uniform.Bad cops, even today, turn their hatred toward others who exposed them, when they should focus that hate inward.
[citation needed] Put them all together and I could sit down and write a good novel about mobsters and organized crime.This story is about criminals, except in this case the crooks carried a badge and wore the uniform of the New York City Police Department. If remarks like that were meant to be derogatory and an attack on the man’s character, then it would be an honor to be called such names.Frank Serpico has been criticized by both retired and active police officers because they felt that he should have done what he did differently. @BryanRenbaum His job was pretty much a white-collar desk job. He is an outspoken voice against police corruption, brutality and misconduct and what he contends is the dwindling of civil rights. He is deaf in one ear, walks with a limp and still has fragments of the bullet that entered his face, lodged near his brain.Over the years, Frank Serpico has lectured at universities, colleges and police academies. That made him a marked man in the department.What Frank Serpico did have, besides integrity, was brass balls and more intestinal fortitude than any man on the department at the time.Back then, cops collected protection money from criminals, and in doing so insured those criminals that their activities could continue without the threat of being investigated and or arrested by the police. Nearly 50 years after Frank Serpico exposed endemic corruption in the New York City Police Department, his name still divides people. It is pure Frank Serpico and it’s the essence of what this man is all about.Over the years, many people have written books mentioning Frank Serpico and events that occurred at the time on the NYPD. Maryland Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Christine Ross said the numbers in the federal government’s latest jobsImage by Queven from Pixabay If Serpico wound up dead, end of story.Inspector Paul Delise partnered with Serpico on the streets. @BryanRenbaum In fact, it’s dark, ugly and disturbing.Payoffs, shakedowns, bribes, gambling, prostitution, narcotics, informants and murder. By this time, Serpico had met another cop, David Durk, who had connections in the New York City government.In the spring of 1967 Serpico and Durk met with Arnold Fraiman, then head of the New York City Department of Investigation. It is the most remarkable speech that I have ever heard concerning corruption and ethics. @BryanRenbaum Delise told the Both in October and December of 1971, Frank Serpico gave hours upon hours of testimony to the Throughout its two-and a-half-year investigation other NYPD cops would testify in front of the The Feds got involved, investigating corruption far beyond just the NYPD, at all levels of the criminal justice system in New York City.Make no mistake about it, Frank Serpico’s actions started it all. He traveled and studied throughout Europe.Ramsey Clark with Frank Serpico during the Knapp commissionOn December 29, 1972, after a two-and-a-half-year investigation, the “The rookie who comes into the Department is faced with the situation where it is easier for him to become corrupt than to remain honest, wrote the As far as the plainclothesmen assigned to enforcing gambling laws, the Narcotics officers were involved in shakedowns of narcotics dealers; theft of seized money and narcotics; possession and sale of narcotics; receiving stolen property; “Flaking,” or planting narcotics on an arrested person; “padding,” or adding to the quantity of narcotics found on an arrested person; storing narcotics, needles and other drug paraphernalia in police lockers; illegal wiretaps used in either making cases or to blackmail suspects; purporting to guarantee freedom from police wiretaps for a monthly service charge; selling official information; Accepting money for registering as police informants’ persons who in fact were giving no information, and falsely attributing leads and arrests to them, so that their “cooperation” with the police may win them amnesty for prior misconduct, financing heroin transactions; testing the purity and strength of unfamiliar drugs on addict-informants; introducing potential customers to narcotics pushers; revealing the identity of government informants to narcotics criminals; kidnapping critical witnesses at the time of trial to prevent them from testifying; providing armed protection for narcotics dealers; offering to obtain “hit men” to kill potential witnesses.Detectives assigned to general investigative duties conducted shakedowns of targets of opportunity, amounts reaching several thousand dollars.Uniformed patrolmen assigned to street duties were receiving money on a large scale but with smaller amounts. This story is about police corruption and it is not pretty.