Frank Serpico

Biography

Frank Serpico is a retired NYPD detective and whistleblower, exposing police corruption in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His courageous reporting, including a 1970 New York Times story, led to the establishment of the Knapp Commission, which investigated police corruption. A shooting attempt on his life in 1971 raised suspicions about his fate, but Edgar Echevarria was later convicted of attempted murder.