Precinct Seven Five Review

What a story. Dubbed “THE DIRTIEST COP EVER” by the* New York Post*, Michael Dowd’s crime-spree within the NYPD initially started out with bribery and a little light burglary, then escalated into full-on berserk corruption. Before his inevitable fall, Dowd was dealing crack, shielding drug barons and living like a pimp. Tiller Russell’s blistering copumentary revisits events with a scandalised buzz, juiced by Dowd’s own gleeful confession — 25 years on, you sense his only lasting regret was getting caught. Told in a rush of talking heads and archive footage, this is a siren-flash of  a film, charged up in the edit like a true-crime GoodFellas. Entirely appropriate, given Dowd was little more than a mobster with a badge. Seek it out.