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...York City Police Department, despite the physical peril and psychological pressure he suffered at the hands of his fellow policemen. Without wealth or influential contacts, Frank Serpico pushed his case against plainclothesmen on the take so far that it embarassed the Lindsay Administration and helped catalyze the Knapp Commission. His story could have given the lie to the current wave of police epics, and not only dramatized the ugliness of New York City streets and jails, but the possibility of changing our society...
...number of the A.M.A.'s specific charges about the show were petty, but others were significant. One of the show's human-interest vignettes, for instance, concerned Kristen Knapp, 5, whose congenital heart condition received prominent treatment in the documentary. NBC showed the girl being denied necessary corrective surgery be cause her father-laid off his job two years earlier-could not afford...
...Knapp family remembers things differently. Gregory Knapp, the father, says that NBC was in touch with him and was told of the operation...
...perhaps most important-why did NBC allow sloppy reporting on the Kristen Knapp case to undermine what was generally a serious and courageous report on a very real national problem...
...real police heroes who patrolled a black Brooklyn ghetto with such derring-do that drug pushers and grateful residents dubbed them Batman and Robin. Also nonfiction, Serpico is about Frank Serpico, the patrolman whose charges of widespread corruption in the New York police department were eventually documented by the Knapp Commission...