Frank Serpico

“Ten years of my life was trying to get somebody, anybody, to listen.”

“I felt that if I didn't say what I had to say, I'd be a party to it.”

“We must create an atmosphere where the crooked cop fears the honest cop, and not the other way around.”

“The reality is that we do not have a system of justice, but a system of law. And the system of law is not always a system of justice.”

“The first duty of a cop is to protect the people, not the institution of the police.”

“Police corruption is a cancer.”

“I was just a cop who wouldn't take a buck.”

“The thin blue line has become a thick blue wall of silence.”

“I hope that my story will be an inspiration to young people to stand up for the truth.”

“We have to hold police accountable for their actions.”

“What I saw was a system that was not only corrupt but that protected the corrupt.”

“I'm not a hero. I just did my job.”

“An honest cop is the last person a corrupt cop wants to see.”