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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
David Durk, Former NYPD Sgt Who Testified About Police Corruption, Dies, Age 77
The New York Times reports that former NYPD Sgt.David Durk, who testified about police corruption, has died..
David Durk, a New York police detective who with Officer Frank Serpico shattered the infamous blue wall of silence to expose widespread corruption in the city’s Police Department in the 1960s and ’70s, died on Tuesday at his home in Putnam County, N.Y. He was 77.
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/nyregion/david-durk-detective-who-exposed-police-corruption-dies-at-77.html?hpw
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