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Disillusioned, fearful for his life but still determined, Serpico and three other policemen, including an inspector, went to the New York Times more than a year ago and talked into a tape recorder for eight hours. After learning of the upcoming story, Mayor Lindsay quickly announced the formation of an investigation team that ultimately became the Knapp Commission. With some of Serpico's information and volumes of its own, the commission has since compiled a picture of department-wide police corruption. In one reported scandal, two commission investigators came upon a group of officers in uniform brazenly stealing cartons...
WRISTON: Administrative practices are a major difficulty. You ship fruit over to the Common Market, and they have one inspector on the pier. With that delay, the fruit spoils before the ship can be unloaded. They say that they are not discriminating against us-it just happens that the other fellow's brother graduated from college that day and he went to the ceremony with his sister...
...McCULLOUGH: We in the textile industry cannot ship much into Italy. The customs inspector goes out to lunch, and he never comes back...
...cherished knickknacks. Only occasionally do they find weapons. While the troops search for illegal Catholic arms, there are 73,000 licensed weapons, including 600 automatic weapons, throughout Northern Ireland, most of them in the hands of Protestants. To get a gun one needs a permit from a police inspector-and he is usually Protestant...
...coffin, with full Roman Catholic death rites, the money they want to hide. Truscott, a Scotland Yard sleuth on the trail of Fay, a nurse who has poisoned Mrs. McCleavey and killed seven successive husbands in one decade, appears on the scene, calls himself the Water Commissioner Inspector, and ferrets out clues about Mrs. McCleavey's death and the missing money...