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Knapp Commission Report Dec. 78: [A]ll betting slips and the money bet are collected from the various runners and taken either directly to the ‘bank’ or to a ‘drop’ [...] At the bank, clerks with adding machines tally the day’s take and figure the money owed to winners. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 92: There is a traditional unwritten rule among policemen that narcotics graft is ‘dirty’ money not acceptable even to those who take ‘clean’ money from gamblers, bar owners, and the like. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 67: Some officers, who don’t think twice about accepting money from gamblers, refuse to have anything at all to do with narcotics pushers. They make a distinction between what they call ‘clean money’ and ‘dirty money’. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 173: William Phillips [...] , regularly patronized, with other detectives, the very best restaurants, where he received gratis what he called ‘electric-chair meals’. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 83: [W]hen police needed a gambling arrest, they would pick up somebody known to them as a gambler and plant phony numbers slips on him (a practice known as ‘flaking’) [...] 103: It is also common to use illegally retained narcotics to ‘flake’ a narcotics suspect, that is, to plant evidence on a person in order to make a narcotics arrest. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 223: The usual price, he was told, was $500, but since Phillips had already been ‘flopped’ from the Detective Bureau it would cost him $1,000. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 172: [I]t was not uncommon for policemen assigned to a radio car to pick up a ‘flute’—a Coke bottle filled with liquor—which they would deliver to the station house. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 94: The ‘dealer’ was finally able to persuade them [i.e. corrupt policemen] to leave him $4,000 as getaway money. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 65: The overwhelming majority of those who do take payoffs are grass-eaters, who accept gratuities and solicit five- and ten- and twenty-dollar payments from contractors, tow-truck operators, gamblers, and the like, but do not aggressively pursue corruption payments. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 92: [T]he Commission learned of [...] narcotics-related corrupt conduct on the part of police officers, such as: [...] Offering to obtain ‘hit men’ to kill potential witnesses. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 145: Juice joints, which are essentially unlicensed and untaxed package stores operating out of hallways or private apartments, sell liquor and wine by the bottle when licensed liquor stores are closed. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 4: Corrupt policemen have been described as falling into two basic categories: ‘meat-eaters’ and ‘grass-eaters.’ [...] meat-eaters are those policemen who [...] aggressively misuse their police powers for personal gain. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 78: Bets are taken by numbers runners, who either collect bets door-to-door, or accept them at a fixed location which may be anything from a street corner to a store to a first-floor apartment. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 103: Narcotics retained from prior arrests are also used for ‘padding,’ that is, for adding to the quantity of narcotics found on a subsequently arrested person, thus enabling the arresting officer to upgrade the charge to a felony. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 104: [of policemen working with narcotics dealers] They were either suppliers of drugs [or] they themselves were sellers of drugs; or they ran shotgun’. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 66: A ‘score’ is a one-time payment that an officer might solicit from, for example, a motorist or a narcotics violator. The term is also used as a verb, as in ‘I scored him for $1,500’. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 83: When police decided to score gamblers, they would most often flake people with gambling slips, then demand $25 or $50 for not arresting them. Other times, they would simply threaten a flake and demand money. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 51: He [Police Officer William Phillips] had engineered innumerable ‘scores’ of gamblers, pimps, loan sharks, illegal liquor dealers, and other violators who had paid him as much as several thousand dollars for their freedom following arrest. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 66: A ‘score’ is a one-time payment that an officer might solicit from, for example, a motorist or a narcotics violator. The term is also used as a verb, as in ‘I scored him for $1,500’. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 79: [I]t became clear that the police were aware of the spot’s existence and business. [...] Yet the business went on seemingly unhampered by police arrests. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 156: [M]embers of the Hack Bureau of the Police Department, which regulates taxis and taxi drivers, charged drivers and owners under-the-table fees. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 217: In that investigation, a corrupt situation was allowed to continue [...] so that as many participants as possible could be identified. Corrupt policemen were ‘turned’ and kept on the job as investigators. Knapp Commission Report Dec. 84: Another common method [of extortion] consisted of policemen confiscating the gambler’s numbers slips, which are known as ‘work.’ The police officer would then offer to sell the work back to the gambler.