The Seven Five Summary

Police corruption is a practice of illegal and unprofessional behavior for improper reason to achieve approved goals by their officers. “The Seven Five,” documentary looks at police misconduct at Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct during the 1980s. The documentary turns into a narrative feature combined of interviews with key investigators, Michael Dowd, and Adam Diaz a deported Dominican drug dealer. Police Officer Michael Dowd explained his rogue activities during his assignment at rid the City of narcotics traffickers. Instead, he enlisted the services of other officers who began robbing drug dealers of their money, drugs or guns, or going into business with them to distribute narcotic and weapons. Dowd identified his formative years at the Department as laying the groundwork for his corrupt

activities.
The profit motivated crimes for Michael Dowd was an incentive form in order to make financial gains, according to him.

His criminal career began when he stopped a young Puerto Rican who had a motorcycle being driven without a plate. Dowd told the driver the different traffic violations was around $2,000 in tickets, but he suggested that if he bought him a lobster lunch him that he’ll let it go not before Dowd took $200. The next opportunity was when he was the first to arrive in a shooting inside a drug house he put $800 in his pocket eventually he was the first on a crime scene to take money, guns and drugs from drug houses. He was earning $4,000 a week as a gangster wearing NYPD uniform, buying houses, going on lavish holidays, and driving expensive Corvettes.
Administrative/failure to perform a duty cops a pattern of perjured police testimony and false crime reports was link with “grass eaters” form. Grass Eaters are referred to as corrupt officers who receive payoffs, officers who spend a good deal of their working tours aggressively seeking out situations they can exploit for financial gain, including gambling, narcotics, and other serious offense which can yield

payments.
The notion that a person who uncovers corruption is a “rat” or that one must not break the “blue wall of silence’ was created by the wrongdoers to protect themselves.
The police officers were involving of members in narcotics as well as the protection of persons dealing in drugs or protections of drug dealers another type of corruption. Michael Dowd testified the police officers receiving payoffs from drug dealers in bodegas and other storefront locations in the neighborhood. He deals directly with a drug dealer named Adam Diaz, who pay $8,000 weekly for protection with a first down payment of 24,000 dollars. Michael Dowd testified he was snorting cocaine in his 75th precinct patrol car. He raided the drug dealer’s apartments for cash and narcotics, and of later dealing the drugs in Long Island, where he lived. Finally, Dowd was arrested on charges of drugs conspiracy, he was cuffed officers searched him and found a cocaine in his pocket (possession of drug.)
Maintaining the integrity of the Police department and preventing corruption are the responsibilities of every single police officer. The values of NYPD department are protecting the lives and property of every fellow citizens and impartially enforce the law. Fight crime, both by preventing it and aggressively pursuing violators of the law. Maintain a higher standard of integrity than is generally expected of others because so much is expected of police officer. Value human life, respect the dignity of each individual and render their services with courtesy and civility.