On February 3rd, 1971, detective Frank Serpico — immortalized by Al Pacino in the gritty 1973 cop drama Serpico — was shot in the face. The bullet pierced him under the eye and lodged in his jaw. Just a year earlier, he had gone public with evidence of shocking corruption …
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