Frank Serpico

Personal Info

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Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-04-16 (89 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Frank Serpico

Biography

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. In 1967, he reported credible evidence of widespread police corruption, to no effect. In 1970, he contributed to a front-page story in The New York Times on widespread corruption in the NYPD, which drew national attention to the problem. Mayor John V. Lindsay appointed a five-member panel to investigate accusations of police corruption, whic...

Acting

2013

After Newtown: Guns in America

as Self - retired New York City Police Department officer

2017

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