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About the NYPD seventy fifth precinct and a crew of dirty cops, mid 80s-early 90s. Eye opening, interviews with the main players. | ||
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Thought it was a great documentary. And if anyone thinks that stuff is or was isolated, think again. Lots of corrupt cops back then and unfortunately now. In Baltimore we just had 6 cops go down for doing basically the same things that were displayed in that documentary. | |||
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I've watched it about three times. Very compelling documentary. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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Never been a cop but I am former Army. Whenever I see egregious acts like that I always think one thing: where was LEADERSHIP ?? You can't have renegades like that operate for so long without an abject failure in leadership. I agree - it is an incredible documentary. It struck me how Dowd could rationalize ANYTHING and was a master manipulator. Just like the career criminal he is. And perhaps the greatest irony is he got out of prison and works / worked for the NYPD Internal Affairs. ------------------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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6 out of how many on the BPD ? | |||
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Six too many. _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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6...that we know about. That doesn't include all of the IA cases that the public never hears about because the BPD protects IA reports better than the CIA protects national secrets. And considering the city pays out about 15 million in lawsuits every year, there's probably a treasure trove of corruption in those IA reports that we will never, ever see. Corrupt cops come with the territory in urban environments. There's so many officers and so much crime it's easy for them to slip through the cracks. There was a huge BPD scandal a few years ago with a towing scam. Involved like 30-40 officers all getting kickbacks from using one tow company that would tow cars back to one body shop, and sometimes involved fraudulent reports. Some officers got fed time, some just got fired. | |||
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I watched it. Dowd is a scumbag. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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| Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Big time. The Dominican guy cracked me up though. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan "Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle | |||
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| Ice age heat wave, cant complain.  |
Yes. I found him strangely likable. NRA Life Member Steak: Rare. Coffee: Black. Bourbon: Neat. | |||
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Agreed. Diaz was a scumbag - but a likable scumbag. He was SUPPOSED to be a criminal and make criminal decisions. His attitude was ' I was a leopard - a leopard is supposed to have spots...'. Dowd - a sworn officer - OTOH betrayed the public trust and implicated / endangered others with reckless abandon. ------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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But you still didn't answer my question. Six out of how many? | |||
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Around 1500 last I checked. What's your point? | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
Interesting documentary. Thanks for the suggestion! "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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| Do No Harm, Do Know Harm |
I recently watch this is well. Astounding. I am fortunate I suppose in that I have never witnessed obvious corruption. I have witnessed quite a bit of stupidity, and some bad cops in the general sense of the word, meaning they were idiots that had no business being officers, but I have never witnessed a crooked cop. Maybe it is because the crooked ones know that I won't put up with their shit. Knowing what one is talking about is widely admired but not strictly required here. Although sometimes distracting, there is often a certain entertainment value to this easy standard. -JALLEN "All I need is a WAR ON DRUGS reference and I got myself a police thread BINGO." -jljones | |||
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I watched it last night, very enjoyable and true. As a teenager, we were an hour bus ride into NYC and would go over every couple of weeks. One time when I was around 16, the Mets made it into the World Series for the first time. So we cut school and went to see if we could sneak into Shea Stadium. We found a way where there was a short wall and a line going up it to the first level in the stadium. We climbed up and over the railing when there was a NYC cop. He grabbed us and made us each pay $20 dollars. He then said go down the stairs toward the field and the cop there would show us where to watch the game. We got to the bottom and the cop asked us for our ticket stubs. We told him we gave the cop up top the money and he sent us down to you. Well, we each got slapped in the back of our heads and escorted out of Shea Stadium. Yea, I can believe the documentary. Living the Dream | |||
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Dumbass got arrested again.  http://longisland.news12.com/s...nal-contempt-charges _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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Just watched it myself - wow. "The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli." - George Costanza | |||
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