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Murphy acted because evidence of police corruption had grown too massive to ignore. Two separate investigations -one by the State Commission of Investigation, the other by the city's Knapp Commission-had turned up more than a few "bad apples," as the police like to describe their erring members. Elite units like the narcotics squad were reputed to be filled with men who were pushing drugs instead of trying to stop their spread. It had become frequent practice for a patrolman to turn in part of the narcotics he had picked up in a raid and keep the other...
...pair would then be reassigned while the shakedowns continued uninterrupted. The honest cop who did turn in another member of the force might be putting his own life in danger-and no action was likely to be taken against the offender. In an interim report issued last July, the Knapp Commission said that 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...
...desperation, Serpico, Durk and a group of other officers went to the New York Times last year to tell their story. The editors were impressed and decided to publish it. Once public pressure began to build up, the mayor appointed the Knapp Commission, which got its initial information from the men Lindsay refused to meet. The commission rapped Lindsay for being partly to blame for the corruption and charged that Leary, who resigned as commissioner last September, has a "lot to answer for in failing to provide leadership in the field...
...efforts are now sending shock waves through the ranks of New York's finest. An independent five-man panel known as the Knapp Commission, formed as a direct result of information provided by Serpico, is due to report its findings next month. Insiders say that the commission will charge that 60% of New York policemen are on the take. Among certain elite units of plainclothesmen and detectives that are responsible for investigating such areas as gambling and narcotics, the report is expected to say, the corruption rate is between 99% and 100%. Serpico, as a matter of fact...
...determined, Serpico and three other policemen, including an inspector, went to the New York Times more than a year ago and talked into a tape recorder for eight hours. After learning of the upcoming story, Mayor Lindsay quickly announced the formation of an investigation team that ultimately became the Knapp Commission. With some of Serpico's information and volumes of its own, the commission has since compiled a picture of department-wide police corruption. In one reported scandal, two commission investigators came upon a group of officers in uniform brazenly stealing cartons of meat from a packing plant. Though...