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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.
Nov 21, 2021 · Learn about the true story of Frank Serpico, the cop who exposed bribery and crime in the New York police department and was shot in the face for it. Find out how he inspired the film Serpico starring Al Pacino and how he fought for justice and change.
Nov 3, 2017 · In the 1970s, whistleblower Frank Serpico exposed rampant bribery in the New York Police Department. Serpico, a cop himself, ended up getting shot in the face when fellow officers wouldn’t come to his aid when confronting a suspect.
Dec 5, 1973 · Serpico: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire. An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
Oct 4, 2019 · In the early 1970s, a police officer named Frank Serpico became New York City’s best-known whistle-blower by speaking up against widespread corruption in the Police Department.
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.
Serpico at Home. Four decades after battling corruption in the New York City Police Department, Frank Serpico, 77, is now battling a developer building a luxury home next to his upstate refuge.
