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...tapes disclosed that the "narcs" became pushers themselves, conducting their business openly. In exchange for heroin, they received a variety of stolen goods. A 40-second color film showed a cop being handed four bottles of whisky by an informant, who was given in return an envelope filled with heroin. Another cop ordered two shipments of liquor to be sent to his home, although he was not able to receive one of them because he had to attend a meeting on corruption at the station house...
...Parolees are almost as bereft of rights as prisoners. So lower federal courts declined to intervene when Raymond Arciniega's parole was revoked. After serving nearly eight years of his ten-year sentence for selling heroin, Arciniega went to work booking acts into a Torrance, Calif., nightspot. Unfortunately for him, two other ex-convicts also worked there, and his parole board decided that he was violating the rule against associating with former prisoners. The Supreme Court unanimously found that conclusion unacceptable. Occupational association is not enough to send a man back to prison, said the court. "To so assume...
...Director William Friedkin (The Night They Raided Minsky's) sets such a frantic pace that there is hardly a chance to notice, much less care. The connection is a French businessman (Fernando Rey) who arrives in New York City with a multimillion-dollar shipment of high-grade heroin stashed underneath a car door. By dumb luck, a couple of tough narcs get onto the deal and chase "Frog 1" and his friends all around the town, turning New York into Gun City in the process...
...roams around Manhattan's West Side scraping up money for fixes and getting into trouble. The cops hassle him. The neighborhood pusher cons him into running sinister little missions on his behalf and rewards him with insubstantial quantities of dope. J. tries swiping a large shipment of heroin, but some hoods catch him, strip him and lock him in a bedroom while they mull over his ultimate fate. He escapes by the wildly funny expedient of donning a woman's dressing gown and putting on a display of perverse exhibitionism to attract the attention of some neighbors across...
...with the cops' scheme, so they bust Farm on a trumped-up charge to force his hand. J.'s choice is excruciatingly simple: blow the whistle on the junkie, who will have him killed, or spend the rest of his sorry life in jail for trafficking in heroin...