Alas, the Finest

A story of police corruption that smeared the blue uniform of "New York's finest" was unreeled last week by Special Prosecutor John Harlan Amen (rhymes with layman). His charge: Brooklyn gamblers annually forked out $1,000,000 to cops who winked at their $100,000,000 bookmaking business. His proof: 1,500 feet of film recording payoffs; evidence, collected by a squad of special sleuths, that Brooklyn cops bought, with their boodle, outboard motorboats, small cruisers, summer homes, automobiles, $1,000 fur coats for their wives, real estate. Named by Amen grand juries were 49 cops.

So general was the practice, said Mr. Amen, that such graft was considered "clean money" by policemen who would never take "dirty money"--i.e., bribes from such lowlifes as murderers and crooks.

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