Frank Serpico

Francesco Vincent 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.

14 April 1936

Born on the same birth date (14 April 1936): Arlene Martel • Bobby Nichols

Born on the same birth day (14 April): Avner Dorman • Boris Šprem • Brad Garrett • Christiaan Huygens • D. J. Moore • David Urquhart (bishop) • Dominique Baudis • Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean • Erwin Hoffer • Frank Daniel • Fredric Jameson • Gerry Anderson • Jean Pierre-Bloch • John Oliver (bishop) • Kenny Aaronson • Martin Lipp • Miguel Calero • Nate Fox • Nikoloz Tskitishvili • Pat Symcox • Shorty Rogers

Born in the same month (April 1936): Abdul Qadeer Khan • Bobby Nichols • Bobby Smith (rhythm and blues singer) • David A. Hardy • Drew Shafer • Geoffrey Shovelton • Glen Campbell • Harold Vick • James Dobson • Jean-Pascal Delamuraz • Jean-Pierre Changeux • John A. Bennett • Pauli Ellefsen • Peter Collinson (film director) • Pierre Hétu • Tariq Aziz • Tarun Gogoi • Vadim Kuzmin (physicist) • Vladimir Hütt