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  2. 39th District corruption scandal - Wikipedia

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    39th District corruption scandal. The 39th District Corruption Scandal refers to a persistent pattern of brutality and corruption among a cadre of Philadelphia Police Department officers, primarily from the Department's 39th District. The scandal emerged in late 1995 and received nationwide attention by 1997, eventually resulting in an ...

  3. The Thin Blue Lie - Wikipedia

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    The premise of the film concerns Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jonathan Neumann (), who, along with his partner Phil Chadway (Randy Quaid), won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for a series of articles exposing Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo (Paul Sorvino) and the Philadelphia Police Department for corruption.

  4. Abscam - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Representative Michael Myers, second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 that he just received from undercover FBI agents. Abscam, sometimes written ABSCAM, was a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s that led to the convictions of seven members from both chambers of the United States Congress and others for bribery and corruption. [1]

  5. December 8, 2022 at 5:33 PM. As a career police official in Philadelphia, DeShawn Beaufort has a reputation for being a fierce critic of misconduct who has worked to change in how cops interact ...

  6. Richard Costello - Wikipedia

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    Police officer. Website. www.RichCostello.com. Captain Richard Barry Costello (April 4, 1951 – December 2, 2021) was an American police officer in Philadelphia who was President of the Philadelphia Lodge of the FOP. In 2008, he unsuccessfully challenged incumbent John Perzel in Pennsylvania 's 172nd Legislative District in Northeast Philadelphia.

  7. Busted (book) - Wikipedia

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    Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love is a 2014 non-fiction book by Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker.The book details the true tale of how Ruderman and Laker, two reporters at the Philadelphia Daily News, led an investigation into police corruption in Philadelphia.

  8. Frank Serpico - Wikipedia

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    Other work. Lecturer. Francesco Vincent " Frank " Serpico (/ ˈsɜːrpɪkoʊ / SUR-pik-oh; born April 14, 1936) is an American retired New York Police Department detective, best known for whistleblowing on police corruption. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a plainclothes police officer working in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Manhattan to ...

  9. The Shame of the Cities - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia, Steffens argues, is an important case for Americans to study, since its corruption in 1903 existed even after the city had reformed and adopted a new city charter in 1885. The Philadelphia machine, Steffens reports, "controls the whole process of voting, and practices fraud at every stage".