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If the name Serpico sounds familiar, it may be remembered from a movie. Serpico is portrayed in the 1973 movie directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino. This movie may be loved by many but it’s important to realize that its characters are real men and the story line is very real. Although most police officers work very hard to do their jobs within ethical standards of the law, it is often not hard to find some type of corruption within a department. Who is the real Frank Serpico? According to the New York Times, Serpico was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1936. He longed to be a police officer from an early age and dreamed of wearing the uniform. When Frank turned 18 he joined the United States Army and traveled abroad. Stationed in Korea …show more content…
Biography describes Serpico as a detective who worked in the Bronx, Harlem, and Brooklyn. In 1970, Serpico and Durk went to the New York Times attempting to expose the department’s corruption. Published by David Burnham, the article made the front page of the paper and it put pressure on Mayor John V. Lindsay to form the Knapp Commission. Serpico and Durk decided that they would still work, regardless of the harsh names that they acquired by the department. They also risked retaliation by the other officers on the force. It was during this time that Frank became seriously injured on duty in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Pollock states, “Before he had a chance to testify to the Knapp Commission, Serpico was shot in the face at point-blank range in a drug bust while his fellow officers stood behind him. This was a suspected set up, especially since there were never calls for help issued” (Pollock, p. 173, …show more content…
It physically put their lives in danger but they believed in standing up for what’s right and doing the right thing. Instead of using the term whistle blowers, he uses the term of lamp lighters. He opened the eyes of those in New York and all over the nation. Frank Serpico made it evident that good cops should not have to fear bad cops. In my opinion, Frank Serpico is a hero and the outcomes of the way that he left the force should not have happened the way that it did. Police officers should not be held above the law and their actions and behaviors should be those that are legal. If an officer knows that someone is in fact, participating in corrupt behavior they should not fear doing what is right and letting the designated individual
Dowd becomes a patrol cop in Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct, in East New York in 1983, and within a year, he formed a crew of cops that began robbing drug dealers. In 1986 known on the streets as ‘’Mike the Cop”, he began charging drug dealers as much as $8,000 for protection. And also, He began to participate in kidnapping of drug dealers and sold stolen drugs on Long Island. In 1988, NYPD Internal Affairs Sgt. Joe Trimbole began to investigate officer Dowd, but he didn’t receive enough support from the New York Police Department to prosecute him
In a cooperation agreement with prosecutors, the former NYPD detective’s bombshell testimony, described in detail the police culture of the Brooklyn South and Queens
Officers were rewarded and reprimanded appropriately for the amount of arrests that were made. When Officers successfully prevented or deterred crime it didn’t show on paper. This tied in with officer morale in a big way. The book illustrates that when departments put out arrest quotas for the east side arrests fell, usually to the minimum. Mosko is often very critical of upper police managements distance and ignorance to the actual problems out there.
... officer was a “white hat,” in the book they referred to them as newjack. Most of the guards were turnkey; they had little contact with inmates. Lastly, one guard told Ted Conover to live at work the problem at work and not bring it home with him. In class we talked about how officer go home with the problems of the job, which is not healthy for them and their family.
...les and what they were actually going through was true. I could never imagine a mentality of a police chief being this way. It is an absolute horrific way of policing, and goes against anything to what the current era of community policing stands for. Also, what I don’t understand is how not one police officer took a stand against the police chief, and how this type of policing was never reported and deemed as acceptable behavior. The reason I also chose to include the L.A. riots is because it displays a side of the story many people simply do not discuss. The impression that I received is the rioting is deemed as justifiable. Both incidents are classic examples of how a lack of proper ethics and leadership can lead to such tragic incidents. What is even sadder is in between all this innocent people were affected, such as Rodney King, the businesses, and 53 deaths.
For years police corruption has been a major problem in American society but where is the line between moral and unethical police corruption, many modern movies address this vary issue. Some films portray how types of police corruption can have a positive influence on society, while others show the dark side of police corruption. Many law enforcement agents join the criminal justice with the basic idea of “justice for all,” however, most of them do not realize that the nice guy doesn’t always win. Even though there are vast amounts of movies which specifically address police corruption we will use three main movies for our argument today, mostly LA Confidential, however, also Training Day.
Personally, I know Amadou Diallo stood innocent before those cops. Diallo was in a situation that he had no clue about. There was an outrage when the verdict "Not Guilty" broke out. Many people were furious, astonished and stunned. When I heard that the case was not guilty I was so shocked because I felt that the evidence was perfectly clear that the four New York police officers was GUILTY. It was not fair to my community or me to see such a case misjudge like that. African-American communities has changed their hearts toward Police
We see on T.V police brutality happening all the time. We see cops breaking people bones, throwing them on the ground, and even killing them. This documentary opened my eyes to see how bad it is. Seeing the random stops because of race, and the pushing and shoving of people who do not deserve it. Another thing I learned is how stressful being a police officer is, especially in a city like Newark. These officers face life threating situations daily. With this, I can understand the use of force when there is no immediate threat, because the situation could escalate and it is better to be safe than sorry. The documentary also showed me ways of improvement. Police officers should be required to have at least and Associates degree in Criminal Justice and receive extensive training. Seeing this documentary opened my eyes to what is happening in the Criminal Justice System
On the afternoon of September 1st, 2015, Illinois Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz radioed in from the Fox Lake area saying he was exiting his patrol car to check on a few suspicious men. Not long after, the officer was found shot dead at the scene, he had one bullet in his vest, and the other hitting close to the heart. Officer Gliniewicz’s belongings were scattered at the scene, which made it seem like he was struggling at the time of his death. However, investigators came to the conclusion that Gliniewicz staged his suicide to make it look like he was murdered. Apparently, he was living a double standard life for over 20 years.
The New York Police Department has a mission to "preserve peace, reduce fear, maintain order," and protect its civilians in their communities (NYPD, 2016). On the contrary, civilians do not see the police officers as individuals who are there to protect them because they do not trust the police officers or the justice system. In the past few decades, police officers have not been held accountable for their actions in a few incidents where a few unarmed young black males were killed by the police. Communities responded to this issue with the Black Lives Matter movement with protests nationwide to show support for the unarmed young black men who were killed by police. In response to the aggressive policing, methods of using body cameras and detailed incident reporting ...
One of the most important recommendation the researchers made in this group stands out from other researches that have brought up because they say one thing that one hasn't before – if a police officer commits corruption and fellow law enforcement officer (police officer or supervisors), knew of the corruption or was present, they need to be charged the same as the police officer that was directly charged (or fired, depending on the outcome). If this standard was set forth with in law enforcement agencies, the rate of corruption would drop, and the rate of reporting corruption would sky rocket. Why would want to be fired or charged with federal crimes for something a fellow police officer did and they knew about it, but didn't say anything? Researcher, Dick Simpson, brought up an interesting insight into how the fix the police board (that investigate complaints of possible corruption from a police officer). He stated that since it's very obvious a police department like Chicago, their police board isn't working right, or their corruption rate would be nearly as high as it is. He suggested that the current police board
Peter Maas in “Serpico” tells a story of the officer Frank Serpico, an officer in a police department who tried hard to fight corruption and injustice pervasive in the enforcement system. Two chapters cover the officer’s first successful career steps in the precinct and his service in Bureau of Criminal Identification.
The communities’ had no faith in the police, or respect. Which resulted in a rise of crime. The officers where so busy doing the politician’s work that they were neglecting their duties, which was to serve and protect. Changed needed to happen, and Mr. August Vollmer and O.W Wilson help the efforts. Mr. Vollmer was credited with starting the first college and training program for police out in California. That would help give the police a new image, and the training they needed, and what was expected of them as police officers. All the changes was need to separate the ties between officers and Politian’s. The police where given police cars, state of the art new equipment to help them fight crime. As the newly trained police officers started hitting the streets. They quickly realized that despite the remodeling of the police force, the criminals and crimes was revolving also. Which lead to some citizens felling that they were not getting equal treatment. Which lead to community uproar, which lead to police officers picking and choosing when they wanted to do police
However, police whistleblower is unfortunately all too rare. In the rare cases when other cops do muster the strength to and integrity to report gross misconduct of another officer, the whistleblower is often times ostracized, intimidated, threats made to the security of their jobs, and threats to their lives. For instance, Mr. Barron Bowling was awarded $830,000 due to the life long brain damage from a beating he received from a Drug Enforcement Administration agent Timothy McCue in Kansas City, KS. Timothy McCue claimed that Mr. Bowling resisted arrest. Fortunately a police detective names Max Seifert had the strength to report the wrong doings of the DEA agent. In doing so, he said reported that Timothy McCue threatened to kill Mr. Bowling, called him White Trash, and called him a system dodging inbred hillbilly. Members of the department destroyed photos of the physical damage done to Mr Bowling. Officer Seifert took the statement of witnesses and re-documented the physical and presented it to officials. For being a whistleblower, officer Seifert was forced into early retirement, lost a sizeable part of his pension, and retirement health insurance. In addition, his name and service was slandered and
Once arrived on the scene the undersigned detective interviewed Officer Lombardini (hereafter referred to as W-1), who reported that he and Officer Garzino (hereafter referred to as the complainant) were in full uniform, patrolling PSA 604 on the mountain bike. W-1 reported that he and the complainant observed Mr. Darnell Rico Mayfield sitting in his car (2 doors, black Honda Accord, baring DC tags ES1128) in the rear of 4677 Benning Road, SE.