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...tapes disclosed that the "narcs" became pushers themselves, conducting their business openly. In exchange for heroin, they received a variety of stolen goods. A 40-second color film showed a cop being handed four bottles of whisky by an informant, who was given in return an envelope filled with heroin. Another cop ordered two shipments of liquor to be sent to his home, although he was not able to receive one of them because he had to attend a meeting on corruption at the station house...
With all the loot that was coming their way, the cops finally grew finicky about what they would accept. "I don't want Pall Mall, either," a cop complained on tape to an informant, who then asked: "What about Winston?" Sniffed the cop: "No, I don't know anybody that smokes Winston." When an informant offered to procure some "Sherry Herring" for a cop, the officer remonstrated: "Cherry Heering, Cherry Heering. If you're going to be a dealer in liquor, you have to know your stuff...
...year elections held around the country on Tuesday indicated a substantial realignment of political loyalties. The two most significant elections in this regard took place in Philadelphia and Cleveland. In the city of brotherly love, "the toughest cop in the world," as Frank Rizzo calls himself, was elected Mayor. He defeated a Republican liberal, Thatcher Longstreth, by 50,000 votes out of a total of 750,000. Rizzo's strong law-and-order appeal won him widespread support from the city's ethnic groups, most notably Italians (of which Rizzo is one), Irish, and poorer Jews. Longstreth won substantial support...
...complaints about Phillips seemed difficult to take seriously after a 25-year-old former cop, Edward Droge Jr., was called as a witness late in the week. After four years on the force, Droge left the department earlier this year to continue his education at the University of Southern California. He testified that of the 70 patrolmen he had known at the 80th precinct in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, only two were not on the take. Despite the fact that Droge won eight citations, he casually accepted payoffs in cash or weapons. Gamblers would throw a roll...
Many of the scenes were shot along the East River, around ramshackle warehouses and worn tenements that give the movie a sense of gritty realism. The actors who play the cops are so well cast that they seem to have grown up next door to the precinct house. Gene Hackman plays Popeye Doyle, who likes to ogle girls in boots, break heads and bust blacks; Roy Scheider is his dogged, if only slightly less compulsive, assistant. Eddie Egan plays their boss with bullish authenticity-as well he might since he is an ex-cop who figured in the actual incident...