Al Pacino hits his mark as a whistleblower patrolman who confronts dirty New York City cops in Sidney Lumet’s historically accurate 1973 drama Serpico (1973) Director: Sidney Lumet Entertainment grade ...

Cameras have become crucial to exposing police brutality. Before people could use consumer-grade cameras to record the abuse cops would later try to deny, the most memorable footage of police violence ...

Stuyvesant, N.Y. — He’s a political neophyte whose name — Frank Serpico — is synonymous with his single campaign issue: Corruption. The famously scrupulous ex-cop — key witness in the 1971 Knapp ...

Four decades ago, in 1971, Frank Serpico—bohemian cop, Brooklynite, whistle-blower—was shot in the face during a drug bust and left for dead by his fellow officers. That same year, he went before the ...

The legendary cop who blew the whistle on New York police corruption tells his own dramatic story, proving that 'Serpico' (mostly) got it right. “Frank Serpico” is a finely etched and fascinating ...

Frank Serpico is a former New York City police detective. In the opening scene of the 1973 movie “Serpico,” I am shot in the face—or to be more accurate, the character of Frank Serpico, played by Al ...