The Commission to Investigate Alleged Police Corruption (known informally as the Knapp Commission after its chairman Whitman Knapp) was a five-member panel formed in May 1970 by Mayor John V. Lindsay to investigate corruption and misconduct within the New York City Police Department (NYPD).[1] The creation of the Commission was largely a result of publicized accounts of police wrongdoing, as revealed by Patrolman Frank Serpico and Sergeant David Durk. Lindsay's action was also prompted by a front-page exposé in The New York Times on April 25, 1970 that documented a vast scheme of illicit payments to police officers from businessmen, gamblers and narcotics dealers.[2] In its final report, the Commission concluded that the NYPD had widespread corruption problems,[3] and made a series of recommendations.
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- ^ Rabe-Hemp, Cara (2011). "Police Corruption and Code of Silence". Police and Law Enforcement. Sage Publishing. p. 132. doi:10.4135/9781412994095.n10. ISBN 978-1412978590.