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New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.

Historical image related to New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. from February 3, 1971

Frank Serpico

American police officer and whistleblower (born 1936)

Francesco Vincent "Frank" Serpico is an American retired New York City 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 expose…
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Brooklyn

Borough and county in New York, US

Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located at the westernmost end of Long Island and formerly an independent city, Brooklyn shares a land border with the borough and county of Queens.…
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February 3

Day of the year

February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 331 days remain until the end of the year.
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