Sentences with phrase «expose police corruption»

He began as a young prosecutor exposing police corruption, later become a deputy mayor and ended as New York's fire commissioner.

Not exact matches

«As parliamentarians who often speak to whistle - blowers — from campaigners whose groups have been infiltrated by the police to those exposing corruption in government departments — this judgement is deeply worrying,» Baroness Jones added

Meanwhile Justice Moro — so far largely seen as an impartial individual heading up a serious and comprehensive operation exposing corruption practices of mainstream politicians and powerful business figures — had made a critical move when he decided to make public the contents of a series of tapped phone calls intercepted by the police while investigating Lula.

Last week, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told The Post that the unfolding corruption scandal was the worst he had seen since the rampant, top - to - bottom bribery exposed by the Knapp Commission in the early 1970s.

«If the public is policing the police and exposing corruption in the system, they will be inconvenienced.

The incomparable Sidney Lumet began an unofficial trilogy examining corruption in the New York police with this true - life tale of Frank Serpico, an office who exposed one of the force's biggest bent - cop scandals.

Going undercover himself, Noah attempts to expose the deeply embedded police corruption led by Lieutenant Wilcox (Stephen Berke, «Twists of Fate») and take down Smooth's criminal empire once and for all.

As a police officer investigates the death of his partner, the case exposes disturbing police corruption and a dangerous secret leading him to a troubled young woman.

Based on a book by Peter Maas, Serpico follows Al Pacino's title character as he becomes increasingly disillusioned with the New York Police Department and eventually embarks on a campaign to expose its rampant corruption.

The Raid 2 / Indonesia (Director and screenwriter: Gareth Evans)-- Picking up where the first film left off, The Raid 2 follows Rama as he goes undercover and infiltrates the ranks of a ruthless Jakarta crime syndicate in order to protect his family and expose the corruption in his own police force.

In many respects this event — part of a series of responses to police brutality, corruption, and racist policies aimed at undermining the rights of Britain's black population — was the first of its kind to unfold within the context of the BBC's nightly news.1 At an early moment in British television history, over the course of three days in April 1981, audiences were routinely exposed to images of dissenting blackness through the mediating lens of mainstream journalism; these images became inextricably linked to a series of representational codes that further underscored aspects of British society that had inherited and internalized systematic racial inequities.

In this case, Bill's affection and loyalty to his brother has caused him to ignore the overwhelming evidence and to publicly attack a fellow (former) police officer for breaking the silence, the Omertà, of the police brotherhood by exposing corruption in the ranks.

I wish I could say that this was the first time I have seen a police officer attack another police officer for exposing corruption, but sadly it is all too common.