Plot
Michael Dowd was a Brooklyn cop in the late 1980s who led his crew on a rampage through the streets, robbing dope dealers at gunpoint, and stealing countless kilos of cocaine and hundreds of thousands dollars in cash until his arrest in 1992.
Release Year: 2014
Rating: 7.3/10 (19 voted)
Critic's Score: /100
Director: Tiller Russell
Stars: Michael Dowd, Ken Eurell, Walter Yurkiw
Storyline
For Michael Dowd, being a police officer wasn't a calling, it was just a job- and, assigned to the 75th Precinct in crime-ridden East New York, not an easy or lucrative one. Seizing the opportunity to profit, he stole money from drug dealers, eventually recruiting his partner into an expanding criminal ring. Their 1992 arrest exposed widespread corruption in the NYPD. Weaving together Dowd's revelatory testimony from the investigation, dramatic surveillance footage and interviews with the primary players, The Seven Five tells his incendiary tale.
Cast: Michael Dowd -
Himself
Ken Eurell -
Himself
Walter Yurkiw -
Himself
Chickie -
Himself
Dori Eurell -
Herself
Ken Eurell is a young married NY police officer patrolling the streets
of Brooklyn and living in the suburbs of Long Island. Hired in 1981 at
the young age of 20 he is quickly introduced to a darker side of the
NYPD. He manages to stave off temptation and stay true blue for six
years until he meets Michael Dowd the dirtiest cop ever as coined by
the NY Post.
By the mid 1980s cocaine and crack are running rampant and Eurell falls
to the temptations of the street. For six years Eurell and Dowd go
unchecked protecting major drug organizations and eventually becoming
drug dealers themselves until 1992 when the Suffolk county PD stumble
onto a low level drug dealer that leads to Eurell and his former
partner. Suffolk county in cooperation with the NYPD internal affairs
unit arrested all of the officers involved and 49 civilians. The probe
included undercover drug buys and electronic surveillance. Twenty-five
vehicles were seized also seized was an undisclosed amount of cash and
drugs.
Eurells admitted involvement to the US Attorneys office Southern
District (which he later cooperated along with the DEA and Internal
Affairs Department in an ongoing undercover probe of his former
partners and Colombian drug lords) were purchases of up to one kilo
when he broke away and began dealing himself.
Investigators are stunned when Eurell explains how they were protecting
and assisting narcotics traffickers for weekly payoffs of $8,000.00.
While out on bail Eurell needed to explain to the DEA that his former
partner Dowd wanted to continue their crime spree with a
kidnapping/murder scheme and then a Butch Cassidy style escape to
Nicaragua. Eurell then becomes a CI for the DEA going back out on the
streets wearing a wire to save the life of the intended victim.
These true events spawned the Mollen commission and is the NYPDs
biggest scandal since Serpico and the Knapp commission.
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