Seven Five: Drug Scandal

In the documentary called Seven Five, is about a big scandal that occur in Brooklyn about a corrupt police officer known as Mike Dowd. The precinct for which Mike Dowd worked for was the 75 precinct located in East New York, Brooklyn which was known to have the highest murder rate in the states. When Mike Dowd first became a police officer he did not know, he would be choosing the wrong path until he made his first arrest. As Mike Dowd made his first arrest he see’s that the suspect has a lot of money and begins to question him. The suspect tells Mike about the drug dealing business and Mike becomes interested and wants to know more about it. As soon as he learned about the drug business he began taking bribes from drug dealers on the streets. Also he started to protect drug cartel leader and robbing from other drug dealers at gunpoint. When Mike Dowd began to do these kinds of illegal acts, he had a partner named Chickie who would help him with the drug business but soon after seven other police officers were arrested for corruption. Chickie resign as a police officer because he did not want to go to jail for the same crimes the seven officers were arrested for. …show more content…
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