Word: knapp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first week of hearings on police corruption in New York City, the Knapp Commission exposed mostly "clean" graft-that is, the free meals, liquor and tips that are handed out by businessmen and gamblers as a matter of routine. Last week the commission moved on to "dirty" graft-the payoffs from narcotics pushers that used to be considered taboo even by cops on the take. A mixed media presentation of film, tapes and testimony showed that far too many cops are now as willing to take dirty money as clean...
Narc Pushers. Logan was not caught, as previous witnesses had been, by the Knapp Commission, a five-man panel named for its chairman, Whitman Knapp, a Wall Street lawyer. He came forward voluntarily after he had been dismissed from the force last year for taking a $100 bribe from a narcotics dealer. Wishing to get back on the force, he offered to get narcotics informants to cooperate with the commission. Two of his informants were wired with tape recorders and transmitters. These were used to monitor their illicit dealings with policemen. Meetings took place on street corners, in automobiles...
...Burkert decided to do what the cops wanted him to do-but for the benefit of the Knapp Commission. Properly wired, he made a series of payoffs to the police, climaxed by a $30 bribe handed to two patrolmen right outside a station house. The transaction was filmed by a TV camera crew in a panel truck. The cops spotted the camera and pursued the truck. They managed to stop it, but let it go after the "producer" said they were only filming street scenes. Still, the cops were worried. What if the crew had been working for the Knapp...
...seat of his radio car, though once their aim was too good: the bills went sailing right out the other window. Droge was finally tripped up when he accepted $300 to let off a man whom he had arrested on a narcotics charge. The man was wired by the Knapp Commission. Before the hearings end this week, the commission promises to supply still more proof of wholesale corruption among New York's finest. Well-publicized probes of dishonesty in the police department have taken place off and on at least since Teddy Roosevelt was New York's police...
...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...