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“The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier.”

Quote by Frank Serpico

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Frank Serpico is a renowned New York City police officer known for exposing police corruption. He joined the New York City Police Department in the early 1960s and became the first police officer to publicly accuse his colleagues of corruption in 1967. more

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