But 27 years after the Knapp Commission issued its findings, the law remains untouched.
He entered private practice in 1972, during the fallout from the Knapp Commission.
"If things keep going the way they are going, we may need another Knapp Commission," he said.
From 1970 to 1972, he was chief counsel to the Knapp Commission, which investigated police corruption.
That is what happened when the Knapp Commission made its report in 1972.
You also had the battle within, as the Knapp Commission was tearing up the department.
"If my hunch was right, that administration would come close to being destroyed by the Knapp Commission."
He was also an associate counsel to the Knapp Commission.
He investigated police corruption for the Knapp Commission in the 1970's.
The Knapp Commission changed things so that an officer can't even accept a soda from the neighborhood store.