“It’s not a black or white issue. It’s a blue issue,” Frank Serpico, the former New York City detective whose efforts to expose corruption were made famous in a 1973 movie starring Al Pacino, said in a telephone interview. “The fact is that police have never been accountable,” said Serpico, who in the decades since his retirement from the NYPD has become an advocate for police whistleblowers and greater restraint on the use of force. “In my day, and I’m sure it’s true today, they used to say a district attorney could indict a ham sandwich if he really wanted to. But they didn’t get that in Ferguson. So what erupted in Ferguson is not just about Ferguson. This thing has been a long time coming.” Read more: politico/magazine/story/2014/11/the-great-police-violence-cover-up-113190.html#ixzz3KNZcpZpe
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:55:33 +0000
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