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Francesco Vincent "Frank" Serpico (/ ˈ s ɜːr p ɪ k oʊ / SUR-pik-oh; 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 ...
Frank Serpico: Detective 1936– 1959–1972 Undercover police officer who testified against police corruption in 1971, and whose life was made into a movie and book. Richard X. Slattery: 1925–1997 1948–1960
Frank "Farby" Serpico – born in 1916 in Corona, Queens. Serpico was a member of the 116th Street Crew of the Genovese family. He was promoted to acting boss or street boss by Vincent Gigante from 1998 to 2001 He died in 2002. Charles "Chuckie" Tuzzo – capo operating in New Jersey, Brooklyn and Manhattan. In 2002, Tuzzo was indicted with ...
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Serpico is a 1973 American biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino in the title role. The screenplay was adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from the book written by Peter Maas, with the assistance of its subject Frank Serpico.
In the 1970s, Serpico and Durk came to believe that Leuci was the only honest detective in the Narcotics Bureau, though at the time, he was one of the corrupt. [ 1 ] In 1970, as a result of Serpico and Durk's revelations, New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay , along with a five-member investigative committee, created the Knapp Commission , named ...
For his performance in the 1973 film Serpico, in which he played Frank Serpico, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama. In 1983, he starred as Tony Montana in the crime drama film Scarface, which is considered one of the greatest gangster films, and is considered a cult classic. [1] [2]
The Police Combat Cross is the second highest departmental award of the New York City Police Department.The Police Combat Cross is awarded to police officers who, "having received Honorable Mention awards, successfully and intelligently perform an act of extraordinary heroism while engaged in personal combat with an armed adversary under circumstances of imminent personal hazard to life".