Serpico Speaks

Frank Serpico, early '70s pop icon for the cause of cop honesty, testified on behalf of a proposed New York City ordinance that would create an independent review board for the city's periodically out-of-control police force. The law is needed, Serpico said, to "create an atmosphere where the crooked cop fears the honest cop, and not the other way around."

Frank Serpico, early '70s pop icon for the cause of cop honesty, testified on behalf of a proposed New York City ordinance that would create an independent review board for the city's periodically out-of-control police force. The law is needed, Serpico said, to "create an atmosphere where the crooked cop fears the honest cop, and not the other way around."