Serpico

In the late sixties, the New York City Police Department was immersed in corruption that had been a tradition for over a hundred years. Police payoffs, protection, and drug runner shakedowns were common, enforced by the department's unwritten code of silence. But Frank Serpico, a Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair and an attitude, refused to go along with the system. Risking his health, career, and nearly his life, he dared to expose the bad cops and delivered the greatest single blow to …