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...shooting, in a telephone call to the Associated Press, a group calling itself the Black Revolutionary Attack Team claimed credit for the shooting and vowed further assaults on figures who exploit the black community. Two days later they warned that an apartment house owned by a white Harlem drug pusher would be bombed; it was. The group had never been heard of before the first phone call, and authorities were unable initially to determine the identity or strength of its members. The rhetoric of black militants has recently become increasingly abusive of the Cosa Nostra, accusing Mob heroin traffickers...
...that is needed to go into business is an apartment and an ounce of heroin (average price: $800), easily purchased at a quarter house. The pusher then sells part and gives the rest away to addicts in return for their bringing in customers. As the number of customers increases, the purity of the heroin is decreased, leading to bigger volume and bigger profits for the dealer. In less than a year, a diligent pusher with a $100-a-week business can be netting $10,000 a week. What started the killings in Detroit was a surfeit of aspirants...
...impasse. Until November of last year, they did little more than harass heroin dealers. Standard procedure for closing down a dope house then was called a "tip over": acting on tips, the police would raid a house without a warrant, demanding entry in hopes of scaring the pusher into flushing the dope down the toilet or tossing it out the window. Many arrests resulted-9,143 in 1970-but only 1,500 ever reached trial...
Last February, Plainclothes Patrolman Frank Serpico and two other New York City policemen knocked at the door of a suspected Brooklyn heroin pusher. When the door opened a crack, Serpico shouldered his way in only to be met by a .22-cal. pistol slug crashing into his face. Somehow he survived, although there are still bullet fragments in his head, causing dizziness and permanent deafness in his left ear. Almost as painful is the suspicion that he, and perhaps his partners, may well have been set up for the shooting by other policemen. For Serpico, 35, has been waging...
...four and my most vivid recollection of the event was my impression of the airplane as I first saw it from our upstairs dining-room window. The Curtiss pusher type, with its framework fuselage, looked from sideview exactly like a giant safety...