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[media post] 2·Sep 3 On June 15, 1972, Serpico retired from the NYPD. The department awarded Serpico the Medal of Honor — the highest honor for bravery it could give. There was no ceremony. No formal presentation. No respect attached to it. And the accompanying certificate was never even delivered. They handed Serpico a medal like it was an inconvenience and sent Serpico away. Serpico left for Switzerland. Nearly a decade in Europe, trying to recover from the shooting, the betrayal, and the sustained hatred of fellow officers. In 1973, director Sidney Lumet released "Serpico," starring Al Pacino in the title role. Pacino spent weeks preparing — riding with officers, walking streets in character, meeting with the real Frank Serpico to understand the psychology of what had been endured. The film received seven Academy Award nominations. Pacino was nominated for Best Actor. Pacino won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama. Millions of people worldwide learned Frank Serpico's name. The Knapp Commission's recommendations translated into real reform. New oversight structures. Ethics training. Protected reporting channels for officers witnessing corruption. Police departments across the country implemented changes. Serpico's testimony became a standard teaching case in police academies nationwide. The hatred from fellow officers never fully faded. When David Durk died in 2012, officers on police websites wrote that they wished Serpico had died in that hallway instead. On February 3, 2022 — exactly 51 years to the day after the shooting at 778 Driggs Avenue — New York Mayor Eric Adams sent Frank Serpico the Medal of Honor certificate that should have been delivered in 1972. Serpico celebrated by popping bubble wrap in the style of a 21-gun salute. Frank Serpico is now 90 years old. Serpico lives in upstate New York. The shrapnel is still in the brain. The hearing in one ear is still gone. The PTSD from the shooting still affects daily life. And Serpico is still talking. Serpico still speaks about the blue wall of silence protecting bad officers. Still criticizes police unions blocking accountability. Still argues the Civilian Complaint Review Board is ignored when it matters most. Still believes the system punishes the honest and protects the corrupt. Still believes not enough has changed. One cop refused a bribe in 1959. Reported corruption for years while no one listened. Got shot in the face when his partners stepped aside. Survived because a stranger called for help. Testified anyway. Changed policing in America. Got his medal certificate 51 years late. Still fighting at 90. Tag someone who needs to know the name Frank Serpico. #thetwopennies #history #historyfacts #factsyoudidntknow 2·Sep 3 Every cop on his precinct was on the take. He was the only one who wouldn't play along. They made sure he paid for it. Frank Serpico joined the New York City Police Department in 1959 at the age of 23. He had grown up in Brooklyn idolizing police officers. He wanted to be a hero. He wanted to help people. His first day on the job ended that illusion. Officers were accepting free meals from restaurants, cash payments from drug dealers, and regular protection money from gambling operations. Everyone participated. Everyone got a cut. The system had its own name for it: the Pad. Organized bribe collection, built into the culture of the department. Serpico refused to participate. The department punished him for it. Fellow officers excluded Serpico from cases, refused to back Serpico up on the street, and made clear Serpico was not welcome. In 1967, Serpico began formally reporting the corruption. Supervisors. Internal Affairs. Department brass. Serpico brought names, dates, and dollar amounts. Nobody wanted to know. The instruction was always the same: keep quiet. Serpico found one ally — fellow officer David Durk. Durk had hit the same wall. Together they decided to go outside the department entirely. On April 25, 1970, journalist David Burnham published their story in the New York Times. The front-page headline read: "Graft Paid to Police Here Said To Run Into Millions." The article exposed the Pad in detail — drug dealers paying hundreds per month, gambling operations buying protection, prostitution rings purchasing silence. Millions of dollars annually, flowing through the department unimpeded. Mayor John Lindsay could no longer ignore it. Lindsay formed the Knapp Commission — five members tasked with investigating police corruption city-wide. Serpico and Durk would testify. Remember that name: Knapp Commission. It would determine whether anything changed. First, Serpico had to survive long enough to testify. Fellow officers made open threats. Serpico was a rat. Serpico had broken the code. Talk among cops was that Serpico deserved to die for it. On February 3, 1971, Serpico worked a narcotics raid at 778 Driggs Avenue in Brooklyn. Four officers went to the door. Serpico knocked. The door cracked open. Serpico turned to signal partners for backup. The partners were not there. They had stayed in the hallway. The dealer inside shot Serpico in the face. The bullet passed under Serpico's eye, severed the auditory nerve, and lodged fragments near the brain. Serpico collapsed, bleeding on the floor. Serpico called for help. The partners in the hallway did not respond. They did not call 911. They did not radio for an ambulance. They stood in the hallway and waited. Many who investigated the incident concluded Serpico had been set up to be killed. An elderly tenant in the building heard the shot. That tenant called for help. Paramedics arrived. A neighbor saved Frank Serpico's life. Not his fellow officers. Serpico spent weeks in the hospital. The hearing in one ear was gone permanently. Shrapnel remained lodged near the brain. The pain would be chronic and lifelong. But Serpico lived. On December 15, 1971, Serpico testified before the Knapp Commission in a public hearing. Serpico described the systematic corruption in full — the millions in bribes, the organized collection, the culture of silence that made it possible, and the way the department punished honest officers who tried to report it. Serpico said the system had it backwards. Crooked cops controlled the culture. Honest cops were the ones who suffered consequences. The whole structure needed to be reversed. The Knapp Commission confirmed everything Serpico had described. The investigation found corruption at every level of the department. The Commission recommended major structural reforms: better screening of recruits, command accountability, and a deliberate cultural overhaul. 2·Sep 3 Trump Orders ICE Agents At Voting Locations in Swing States, Thousands o... https://youtube.com/watch?v=VV3Sq0HbTt8&is=4NMhElr9YVbN7-yJ 2·Sep 3

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