Line of duty legend who took on the MOB: New York cop who fought wholesale corruption of his force
The ‘line of duty’ almost cost Frank Serpico his life. In February 1971 he and three other plain-clothes police colleagues went to an address in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, after being tipped off that a drug dealer was selling heroin there. As the only Spanish speaker, Serpico was assigned the hazardous task of pretending to be a … Read more