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Frank Serpico. Francesco Vincent Serpico (born April 14, 1936) is an American retired New York Police Department detective, best known for whistleblowing on police corruption. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a plainclothes police officer working in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan to expose vice racketeering.
- Whistleblower on police corruption and subsequent shooting
- Paco
- American, Italian
- Detective
Nov 21, 2021 · Updated November 29, 2021. In 1970s Brooklyn, idealistic cop Frank Serpico blew the whistle on bribery and crime within the force. It almost cost him his life. In the opening scene of the 1973 film Serpico, Al Pacino, who stars as the titular character Frank Serpico of the New York police department, tensely draws his revolver.
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At 75, Frank Serpico has come a long way from the days when he exposed rampant corruption in the New York Police Department in the 1960s, got shot in the face during a drug bust and subsequently ...
Serpico takes in a ballet at the New York State Theater, now the David H Koch Theater, on the south side of Lincoln Center Plaza, 150 West 65th Street at Broadway, on the West Side. The subway station, where Serpico gives chase after seeing a burglary in progress, only to get shot at by the cops for his troubles, is Ditmars Boulevard, Astoria ...
Dec 10, 2021 · On the morning of Dec. 14, 1971, NYPD undercover detective Frank Serpico put on his only suit. The son of an immigrant cobbler then stopped to get his good pair of shoes shined. The bearded 12 ...
Nov 3, 2017 · The director of “Frank Serpico” talks about whistleblowing, abuse of power, and the need for stories that inspire. In the 1970s, Frank Serpico, a whistleblower, exposed rampant bribery in the New York Police Department.
Feb 4, 2022 · Published 10:28 AM PDT, February 4, 2022. NEW YORK (AP) — More than 50 years after Frank Serpico testified about endemic corruption in the New York Police Department, the department finally recognized his service and injury in the line of duty with an official certificate and inscribed medal of honor. The former undercover detective, 85 ...
