And It Will Ever Be Thus

And [on this day] in 1971, NYPD officer Frank Serpico, who refused to take bribes and had testified against corrupt cops, was shot during a drug bust. Serpico was surprised to discover that his fellow officers weren’t backing him up — and later learned that they hadn’t even called for an ambulance. He recently wrote that, more than 40 years later, “I still get hate mail from active and retired police officers.”

  Bill Moyers

One of Al Pacino’s best roles.