Knapp Commission Hearings, Tape 10: 10/27/71 'Wednesday and Thursday 2nd Week'

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Knapp Commission Hearings, Tape 10: 10/27/71 'Wednesday and Thursday 2nd Week'.

Opens with very end of unidentified witness questioning and a break.

01:02:00 Chief Council Michael F. Armstrong begins questioning of Paul J. Curran, Chairman of the New York State Commission of Investigation. He testified that "police corruption in the enforcement of narcotics laws in New York City existed to a significant degree and certainly was not limited to isolated cases." Curran said he believed this corruption has had "a disastrous effect on the police department and that "heroin law enforcement in New York City was a failure."

0:56:30 Curran testimony concludes.

0:57:52 Picks up with Chief Counsel Michael F. Armstrong discussing the tow-truck racket and pay-offs to police and reports of such in the New York Journal American.

1:02:11 Tow truck driver George C. Burkert is called to the stand and sworn-in.The following hour of tape is the questioning of Burkert by Armstrong and his responses.



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