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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Who Killed the Cop?
While seeking out the criminal Brutus Walker in his building, Sgt. Greevey and Det. Logan see a man falling from the building on a police car. They talk to a witness that has just seen Walker throwing the man through the window of her apartment, when they hear gun shot on the roof. They run and find police officer Pete Rennick dead on the roof and his partner Nicki Sandoval in shock. Walker becomes the prime suspect, but Sandoval provides confuse information. Their further investigation show that Rennick apparently was a dirty cop. When Stone and Robinette assume the investigation, they learn the truth about the case of the cop killer.
"A Death in the Family" is an episode of "Law & Order" with a case of police crime. This time, the theme does not have any polemic. The plot has a good, but predictable twist when the identity of the killer is disclosed. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Uma Morte em Família" ("A Death in Family")
"A Death in the Family" is an episode of "Law & Order" with a case of police crime. This time, the theme does not have any polemic. The plot has a good, but predictable twist when the identity of the killer is disclosed. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Uma Morte em Família" ("A Death in Family")
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