";s:4:"text";s:3619:"https://www.sunsigns.org/famousbirthdays/d/profile/frank-serpico What is the mysterious power which makes them perpetuate this antiquated system?
I would rather see them using one rather than ODing on the other.Many people have written me letters over the past couple of years. They were purported to be better than everyone else, and were just people. I want the right to exist as a free individual. They want me to give them advice. Take-offs.
A place to live. Those aren’t the exact words, but they’re repeated several times, and what I had gotten from it is exactly that. I’m dry.That segment I did with Geraldo Rivera will be the last television interview I do. But I always need something to keep me busy. I haven’t felt the impulse to get myself an XKE, or a couple of Brooks Brothers suits. Again, it’s the typical American epic, the belief when I reach Mr. “X,” he’ll come down on his white horse and save me and make everything good again. I’d be a goddamn hypocrite if I didn’t. Ford had said he thought Nixon had suffered enough, and what good would it have done to prosecute him anymore? Frank Serpico, the whistle-blowing police officer, lives quietly in the woods, but his thoughts are never far from the station house. In New York, it would have been an open-and-shut case. In order for the system to work, the leader has to give out as much respect as he demands from those below him. There were times I saw cops taking traffic money, and I never did anything about it. Well, the fact is, this type of behavior has brought about the distrust of the police by the society. So we had to split to a luncheonette, and we took our books and wrote down “coffee break.” When he confronted us there, we had to pretend we were there all along.A friend of mine in New York who is a landlord was out fixing his window one day, and somebody spotted him for a burglar and called the cops.
In America, it won’t be an easy process to establish, or reestablish this kind of system, but I still feel it can be done.I want to go on, reflecting on my experiences and on life itself. I want everybody to have an equal opportunity to have that same right. I don’t know his exact words, but that was the gist of his comment.Then a short time later, I happened to be assigned to drive this same sergeant, and the first thing he says when he jumps in the car is, “Where can I go to pick up a quick 50 bucks?” I said, “Search me?” and nothing else was said. That was something I could reject. For example, I might walk into a place, and people look at me like, “what do you want?” Just because I don’t feel like cutting my hair, I’m happy with long hair.
I don’t have to be straight, because the other guy isn’t being straight.
It’s the responsibility of every man who wears that uniform. They started working him over right there. But I don’t want to talk about the book or the movie or Pacino because any complaints I have about the film just aren’t that important in comparison to the issues and problems raised in the book and the movie, problems which persist in the NYPD and in America as a country.I could hardly believe it, but it became more real to me when I discovered the follow-up the detectives did on the case, to find out his background, what might have caused him to commit the crime, had he been in trouble before.