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NYC police again under scrutiny
NKW YORK (AP) — The year is 1972 A spt* ml
city commission finds widespread corruption in
the New York City Polit:e Department after an hon
est police officer named Prank Serpico blows the
whistle
Reforms make headlines. Al Pat mo plavs Serpi
co in a Hollywood movie, hot at least one official
tries to temper the self-satisfaction.
"Twenty years front now there will be another
polii e si andal," said Bronx Dislrit I Attorney Bur
ton Roberts
RoIktIs had history to go on Before 1972, the city
had seen major poll* e corruption upheavals about
every 20 years dating l»a< k to 189-1
Now, like clrx kwork. New York City has anoth
er police scandal, another commission
On Monday, the Molten (Commission - named
for its head. Milton Mollen, a former deputy may
or and judge on the state Appeals (Court — begins
two weeks of public hearings They are expected
to provide the first detailed glimpse of the latest
generation of corrupt officers, mainly men in m.al
tered pro mt ts who are aci used of taking payoffs
from drug dealers and. at times, of dealing drugs
themselves
Among uic first wnnpsses is jvm.non iwwu, <«
former Brooklyn officer whose admission he led
a nng of drug-dealing police prompted Mayor David
Dinkins to form the commission Iasi year.
What the Molten Commission is finding, and
what the Knapp Commission found before it in the
early 10708. is that corruption remains ingrained
m police culture
Among those officers who investigate what used
to !*• called viie gambling, prostitution and liquor
violations — a few hove always been yvillingto
ac< ept bribes. others eager to share the pria ends
Today. it's the riches offered by the nan otii s trade
that tempt officers
Mullen follow s a long line of reformers beginning
with the Key Charles Parkhurst In a sermon in
18*12. Parkhurst latxded New York's finest "a lying,
perjured, rum-soaked and libidinous lot."
A state investigation eventually concluded that
city police officers wore operating a racket to extort
money from prostitutes and gamblers The depart
menl was reorganized under its new commission
er. Theodore Roosevelt
Similar scandals strut k the department in 1911.
1932 and 1951. each followed by more reform
efforts
In the early 1970s. the every-20-years curse
returned as Serpico went public about polii e units
collating and divvying up bribes to overlook
t runes After the Knapp Commission investigations,
the department sought to shield regular officers
from temptation by prohibiting them from mak
ing vit e arrests, a policy that eventually was aban
doned.
Then last year, Dowd, three other officers and
one retired officer were arrested and accused of
extorting and stealing money and drugs from Brook
lyn dealers, sometimes reselling the drugs on Long
Island. Sim e then, similar allegations have popped
up in other precincts.
Unlike past scandals, which mainly involved
plainclothes units taking regular bribes, the new
corruption allegedly involves uniformed patrol offi
cers in [Mior neighborhoods who extort shop own
ers. take bribes to protect drug dealers and deal
drugs themselves.
l no yoanong priiiw oy uio {viunwii v«uuiuii»iuii *
staff of 20 investigators and attorneys focused on
isolated pockets of corruption, Mollen said.
It is our perception that the corruption is not
systemic as it once was," he said.
The hearings also will likely deliver a harsh
indictment against the department's Internal Affairs
Division, whic h failed to crack down on Dowd
despite getting reports of his activities for four years.
He finally was arrested by Suffolk County police,
on Long Island.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, who also
is scheduled to testify, admitted the department
failed on the Dowd case and promised to overhaul
the internal Affairs Division
But given corruption's tendency to resurface like
a nasty virus, the commission members appear
poised to recommend the c ity create a permanent
outside monitor to make sure the country's largest
police force polices itself.
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