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A 4 page exploration of the link between organized crime and police corruption. The author explains the reasons behind the formation of the Knapp Commission. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Organized crime has been targeted by a number of very specific law enforcement efforts.
One of the more interesting of these efforts is the Knapp Commission, a commission heading up the investigation that inspired the movie "Serpico". Implemented in the 1970s, the Knapp
Commission was a direct effort to address the corruption that thrived in the New York City police department as police officers allied themselves with various organized crime figures in return
for money. While Serpico was the officer memorialized by Hollywood, other officers were equally as instrumental in exposing the corruption that
was an everyday fact of life. One such officer was David Durk. It was Serpicos and Durks reports to the media, in fact, which spurred the creation of
the Knapp Commission, a commission named after its chairman William Knapp. Their testimony, along with that of other police officers, exposed a citywide network of rogue cops all of
whom had chosen to associate themselves with organized crime. The ability of organized crime to lure police officers into its grip is disturbing
to say the least. Police officers are in constant public contact and have ample opportunity to do either right or wrong. No supervision and monitoring of police officers,
no matter how thorough and conscientious, can keep bad cops from doing bad things. There simply are too many police officers and too few supervisors.
The Knapp Commission noted that organized crime had a grip on some corrupt police officers early on in the citys history. Indeed, the NYPD
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