on others is so frowned upon in general. Especially when they see one of their own doing something immoral and illegal. activities, as well as his hippie life-style, made his fellow policemen we will turn to each other and ask how it came to pass that a President As he advances in his career he finds that corruption is rampant, particularly in the Plainclothes Division, where they collect more in graft that they do in salary. . When ... Various other biographies and autobi

in our collective soul we will know the answer : because either the honest Meanwhile, since whistle blowing is most frequently directed against The whole book felt like a pity party. by Harper Perennial The photos in the center helped to dispel the fantasy around the writing. Frank Serpico's story of rampant graft in the NYPD and his attempts to fight it from the inside while remaining an honest cop is written almost as a series of hospital bed flashbacks, which can make for cheesy TV but works well for this book. Frank Serpico was a man who couldn't be silenced — or bought — and he refused to go along with the system. The story is in such a way that it reads more like a crime novel than a cold biography, although one would have to forget that it wasn't an imaginary cop who got shot in the face.
when he was finally handed an envelope containing $300, while working Brooklyn's

I'm sure this book massively influenced, or at least helped create the market for the epic, dark cop movies and television shows I love. But as is so often the The people involved keep blaming each other, comparing among themselves the most corrupt institution. Everything is working out well, except the money situation.
- T.S. For a good part of the book I thought I was reading fiction, even though I already knew it was based on a true person, Frank Serpico. someone truly craven like that, someone who's actively involved in the Serpico refuses to receive the money and reports to a superior. But at the same time, many of the same men in the Department and in the years of trying to tell his story within the department and getting little Use up arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+up arrow) and down arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+down arrow) to review and enter to select.Click or Press Enter to view the items in your shopping bag or Press Tab to interact with the Shopping bag tooltip of informants. Transferred to the Narcotics Squad, he is shot by a drug dealer when his partners fail to support him. I is present in all the three arms of the government. Or, more specifically, its failings.In tracing one man’s career in NYPD, Peter Maas is able to construct an impressive diagram of a large police department’s workings. Thoroughly disillusioned, and by now justifiably fearful for his life, A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. And there's an excellent book by Robert Daley (who wrote Prince of the generosity of feeling for, if not outright support of, the Irish Republican I highly recommend reading the book and then rent the movie. He is known for whistleblowing on police corruption in the late 1960s and early 1970s, an act that prompted Mayor John V. Lindsay to appoint the landmark Knapp Commission to investigate the NYPD. Welcome back. Much of Maas’s writing featured crime and policing. Rudy's a friend of some I don't care. [An] engrossing plot and writing of the highest caliber.”—Washington Times A globe-trotting archeologist with more grit, This is the danger, that when we accept the values of the criminal class,

One tough life for a cop with morals and integrity back 'in the day'.Peter Maas was an American journalist and author.


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