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Mayor Lindsay was forced to investigate corruption in the NYPD after a series of articles that appeared in local newspapers detailed a wide range of corrupt activities by officers across the NYPD. The first article in the series was written by a reporter named David Burnham, and the article appeared in the New York Times. Two NYPD officers, Frank Serpico and David Durk, were the main sources of information for Burnham's article. Frank Serpico and David Darke were once idealistic officers who became increasingly frustrated after trying to report executives. From the initial indoctrination at the NYPD, officers noticed that other officers received free food and coffee and often offered bribes instead of issuing subpoenas. When Frank Serpico was transferred to an undercover unit in plainclothes, he found that the corruption there was even more systematic and sophisticated in that many officers and detectives were on the pads (controlled payments to the police). Serpico and Durk eventually complained to the district attorney's office, a non-New York police agency. Dissatisfied with the investigation's permission, Serpico, Durk and other officers who were also disgusted A reporter named David Burnham, who worked for the New York Times, was arrested on April 25, 1970, on the front page of an article about nypd corruption. The article opened in one of the biggest scandals in the history of the NYPD and Mayor Lindsay created the Knapp Commission in 1971, named after the judge Mayor Lindsay chose, Whitman Knapp. The scale of New York, the size of the NYPD, and the superiority of New York as the media capital of the world strengthened scrutiny on the NYPD and NYPD cops. The NYPD, as the official police agency, was chartered and centralized in 1844. The early patrol nypD, as they were known then, were appointed under the will of local parish politicians and hoped to protect the illegal racketeering of the parish politician who appointed patrolmen, especially vice-rocketss, who at that time in history consisted mainly of illegal sale of alcohol and prostitution-related criminal activities. Thus began a cyclical picture of corruption and reform. One of the first police reformers in New York, the future President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, was the Commissioner of the New York City Police. Roosevelt, along with the reformed clergy, Charles Henry Parkhurst, initiated the work of the Lexow Committee to investigate police corruption in New York. According to the Lexow Committee, police corruption in New York was firmly entrenched in local government policy. Other commissions that investigated police misconduct in the NYPD followed in 1913, 1930 and 1950. The Knapp Commission was the next major commission of inquiry into police misconduct and corruption. The Knapp Commission found that the most serious police misconduct involved in the provision of prostitution, gambling and drugs. In New York, the illicit street trade in drugs (mainly heroin) continues to grow, creating new opportunities for corruption prior to the Knapp Commission investigation. The Knapp Commission found that corrupt NYPD officers collected protection money and were on the site, which meant that they took bribes from criminals to ensure that their illegal activities could continue without the threat of investigation or arrest by the police. Many of the criminals involved in bribing police officers prior to the Knapp Commission were involved in racketeering, such as prostitution and gambling. However, the Knapp Commission and subsequent investigations have shown that the light flow of currency involved in the illicit drug trade provides new opportunities for corruption. One of the commission's key witnesses was a police officer named William Phillips, who was found to have taken bribes during the commission's investigation. The findings of the Knapp Commission two main types of corrupt officers, grass eaters and meat-eaters. Grass eaters took free food and bribes, which they were offered. Meat-eaters openly requested free food and actively extorted bribes and tried to obtain assignments from law enforcement agencies that were authorized to enforce laws on gambling, prostitution and drugs. One of the main recommendations of the Knapp Commission is to appoint a special prosecutor (outside the City of New York) to investigate police corruption, reorganize the New York Police Department and hold the command for corrupt officers accountable. Frank Serpico was shot in the face during a covert anti-drug operation on 3 February 1971 and was seriously wounded. He eventually testified before the Knapp Commission, and the recommendations of the Knapp Commission led to many anti-corporate strategies in the NYPD. The film, detailing Serpico's efforts, was made in 1973 starring Al Pacino as Serpico. Sir Pico retired in 1972 on disability pension and is now active in efforts to reform the police. David Darke also testified before the Knapp Commission, and his career was reportedly affected as a result, and he eventually resigned in 1985. Eventually, in 1992, another commission called the Mollen Commission was set up to investigate alleged corruption in the NYPD. A New York police officer named Michael Dowd was arrested for drug trafficking in New York City and outside New York City in the suburban neighborhood where Dowd lived. The emergence of the crack cocaine street trade in New York in the 1980s, as well as the growing heroin trade in the 1960s, provided greater opportunities for corruption. Corruption consisted of police officers stealing drugs and cash from drug traffickers and, in some cases, protecting illicit drug trafficking. Unlike the findings of the Knapp Commission, the Mollen Commission found that this corrupt activity was limited to a few sites. The Mollen Commission did not come to the point that corruption is systematic in the NYPD, as has previous anti-corruption investigations in the NYPD. The Mollen Commission found that the corruption was the result of an operation by a crew, a small group of police officers usually on the same mission and during the same hours of work. The Investigative Committee This article contains a list of general references, but it remains largely unverified because it does not have enough relevant references. Please help improve this article by entering more accurate quotes. (November 2009) (Learn how and when to delete this template message) The Whitman Knapp Commission of Inquiry into Alleged Police Corruption (known informally as the Knapp Commission, after its chairman Whitman Knapp) was a five-member panel originally formed in April 1970 by Mayor John W. Lindsey Lindsey investigate corruption at the New York City Police Department. The establishment of the commission was largely the result of publicity generated by public revelations of police corruption made by patrolman Frank Serpico and Sgt. David Durk. The Commission confirmed widespread corruption and made a number of recommendations. Members in 1970, Mayor Lindsay appointed five members to serve on the Knapp Commission: Whitman Knapp, Chairman Arnold Bauman (later replaced by John E. Sprizzo) Joseph Montserrat Franklin A. Thomas Cyrus Vance Investigation and Public Hearings While the Knapp Commission began its investigation into corruption in the police department in June 1970, public hearings did not begin until October 18, 1971. In addition to the testimony of the lanterns (debunkers), Serpico and Durka heard testimony from dozens of other witnesses, including former Howard Police Commissioner R. Leary, corrupt patrolmen and victims of police shake-ups.