You can allege I am naive, but to believe what you want me to believe would mean that Dallas PD was in on the conspiracy. That I do not believe.
Here is what I do know is factual: there is an inverse correlation between number of conspirators and ability conceal a conspiracy. The more people who know what happened the less secure the secret.
Ethan Edwards mentioned "compartmentalization." That's an important concept that you seem to be missing. The entire force doesn't need to be in on anything. One or two high level guys need to be only. All the rest, but perhaps one or two, are following orders to get the bad guy.
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You gotta get beyond Serpico. It was a film with elaborate use of artistic license. To extrapolate from a single movie pandemic corruption is, well, naive.
I'm afraid you're mistaken. The man is still alive and well today, and occasionally does interviews. He says that, if anything, the movie understated the extent of the corruption in the NYPD.
