Corruption In Frank Serpico

Frank Serpico, an Italian born in Brooklyn, and a former NYPD patrolman in the early 1970s. He was assigned to 81st precinct then work with the Bureau of Criminal Investigation for about two years. During his time of being a cop it was a lot of corruption especially for the NYPD because of drug dealers, gambling and protection. Serpico was a man who couldn’t be quiet. He noticed on his first day of work that his coworkers were dirty; sharing money that received from the criminals. He refused to go along with the system and when he was first offered a bribe, he reported it to his fellow workers. However, his allegations were intentionally damaged. He knew it wasn’t right and wants to reveal the situation and change the whole criminal justice

He was the first to stand against police corruption; “a form of misconduct in which law enforcement officers break their social contract and abuse their power for personal gain.” After that, Serpico had gain a lot of enemies of criminal act, mostly drug dealers. Along the years, his superior does not take any attitude against the harm and Serpico is an outcast police officer, rejected by his workers. For example, in a drug bust, Serpico got shot in his left side of his face, leaving him deaf in one ear, his coworker failed to support him and Serpico was betrayed. When Serpico got shot his colleagues didn’t even call in that a police officer got shot so it was obvious that they want him dead. He felt like he attended that drug bust to get killed because his partners didn’t follow him and when Serpico called for helped they ignored him. So While Serpico was in the hospital he questioned himself about what had happen. While he was recovering in the hospital he continuously got anonymous cards with threatens and name calling. From then on, his personal life had been affected and had been harassed and threatened by his

The pass several years many police officers have abuse their power for their own good and/or for others. And almost every police officer knows that one person who abuses the system and they would not confront about it. Many police officers think they wouldn’t get caught on the things they do such as, stealing money, getting drugs, stealing other things from the job and helping criminals. It’s mostly drugs that police officers get involved in because drugs are very well known, expensive and drug dealers are the richest people; so they either become drug dealers or work with the dealers. Today, many police officers are known for being rude and/or prejudice because even when they not in job duty, they go hang out and do something inappropriate and it affects their job. And many police officers that are off duty know what is wrong and right but they don’t care because they think they would not get caught or their workers wont tell. Some police officers turn bad to make money through ripping off drug dealers and even dealing drugs themselves. Some try and cover up their own acts of brutality, murder and even torture. One of the worst police corruption was in the 1980s in East New York, Brooklyn, 75th precinct. A police officer name Michael F. Dowd considered himself “a gangster and a cop”, he put his life in danger for some cocaine and cash. He was a cop for a month and was already