Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Telltale Integrity. This is the petty graft that is taken for granted, Phillips indicated. A cop who is greedy enough can go on to the big money to be made from gambling, prostitution and narcotics. The distinction that used to exist between "clean" and "dirty" graft has broken down; corrupt cops take what they can get and leave the moralizing to others. Depending on where he is stationed in the city, a plainclothesman can make from $400 to $1,500 a month for protecting the rackets. With luck he can make much more. Phillips told of three Queens plainclothesmen...
...fellow cop made the first approach by telling him where to get a free meal. From then on, he regularly freeloaded, though as he told the commission, he tried not to go to a restaurant during "real busy hours." The free meal is a first test of the corrupt cop. If he passes it, he is on his way. When a commission member asked Phillips how he could tell that a certain lieutenant was honest, Phillips replied: "He carries his lunch to the station house. Anyone that does that is clean...
...Hilton. Phillips' revelations caused predictable outrage among New York cops. Even Commissioner Patrick Murphy, who has been vigorously shaking up the department and coming down hard on corrupt cops, thought that the Knapp Commission had gone too far. One "rogue cop," he objected, was smearing the entire force-and indeed Phillips had nothing to lose by telling a lurid story. But Murphy took the matter seriously enough to suspend temporarily his newly appointed chief of detectives, Albert Seedman, who had been given an $83 dinner for four on the house at the New York Hilton last March. After...
...reforming, the prisoner usually became bitter and dangerously hostile to prison officials and the society they represented. The con served hard time, and often after his release sought revenge on society for his incarceration. The penal reformers also pointed out that the convict's bitterness was compounded by the corrupt manner in which inmates with pull on the outside could obtain pardons from governors--then the only mechanism of premature release--while poorer cons had to serve their full sentences...
DECAMERON Pier Paolo Pasolini, an avowed Marxist who makes pallid films of Christianity (The Gospel According to St. Matthew; Theorem), has taken on more than he can eschew. Using ten of Boccaccio's tales, Pasolini twits the church by showing lascivious nuns, self-mocking ghosts, corrupt priests and finally the trials of the painter Giotto, played by Pasolini himself. Giotto was a cornerstone of Renaissance painting; Pasolini plays him as an interior decorator. Boccaccio was famous for his ribaldry; Pasolini is notorious for his vapidity. To adapt the Decameron successfully, a film maker must come to his senses...