A police officer is shot to death on a rooftop. Assistant D.A. Stone's investigation reveals that the officer may have been dirty.A police officer is shot to death on a rooftop. Assistant D.A. Stone's investigation reveals that the officer may have been dirty.A police officer is shot to death on a rooftop. Assistant D.A. Stone's investigation reveals that the officer may have been dirty.
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on two separate cases/incidents:
- The 1986 Larry Davis case. Davis was a New Yorker who shot at six police officers who were carrying out a raid. Davis later claimed the officers were out to murder him because of his knowledge of corrupt cops. The officers claimed they were only there to question Davis about the killing of four (suspected) drug dealers. Davis managed to escape, and a manhunt was launched to find him. Davis later took hostages, and he only surrendered himself to the police when the news media showed up and when he was promised not to be harmed.
- The life of Frank Serpico. Serpico 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 expose vice racketeering. In 1967, he reported credible evidence of widespread police corruption, to no effect. In 1970, he contributed to a front-page story in The New York Times on widespread corruption in the NYPD, which drew national attention to the problem. Mayor John V. Lindsay appointed a five-member panel to investigate accusations of police corruption, which became the Knapp Commission.
- The 1990 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department narcotics corruption scandal and the suspected involvement of the James Henry Atkinson case.
- Quotes
Sgt. Max Greevey: I don't wanna see this guy without back-up.
Det. Mike Logan: Back-up? I don't wanna see him without nuclear weapons.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Law & Order: The First 3 Years (2004)
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Detectives on the scene
In an unusual twist to the Law And Order standard pattern, Detectives Logan and Greeney were on the scene of not one but two homicides. First a man lands on the roof of their car during a surveillance of a drug dealer. Then while Chris Noth and George Dzundza check out the apartment where the recently deceased fell from, two uniform cops go to the roof in pursuit of the fleeing subject of the surveillance. Shots ring out and Logan and Greeney find one of the uniform officers dying of a gunshot wound and the partner Wendy Makkena just numb in a state of shock.
Every person on the NYPD is out after the drug dealer that was being watched who is now labeled a cop killer. Still during the course of the investigation a lot of unpleasant facts about the deceased are found out.
One of Michael Moriarty's finest pieces of acting comes in the final scene where ADA Ben Stone is before the Grand Jury presenting the facts. I only wish it had gone on a bit longer.
Every person on the NYPD is out after the drug dealer that was being watched who is now labeled a cop killer. Still during the course of the investigation a lot of unpleasant facts about the deceased are found out.
One of Michael Moriarty's finest pieces of acting comes in the final scene where ADA Ben Stone is before the Grand Jury presenting the facts. I only wish it had gone on a bit longer.
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- bkoganbing
- Oct 25, 2017
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