Mike "The Cop" Dowd and Kenny Eurell led a gang of crooked cops during the crack cocaine years of the 1980s and 1990s. They eventually got caught but a plan to get them out of the country while out on bail leads Eurell to turn on Dowd, sending Dowd to prison for 12 years (in 1992). Eurell never served a day.
This all led to the 1992 Mollen Commission's investigation into police corruption in the New York Police Department at which Dowd testified.
This is the kind of story that could easily be made into some kind of Scorsese/Johnny Depp mobster thing. It's the story we've all seen, but better. This is a gritty and raw film that Dowd and Eurell actively participate along with many of their accomplices, criminals and cops alike, as talking heads recounting their version of events.
4/5