Corrupt Cop: I Had Sex With Girls In My Police Car, Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs!

(intense music) I've never heard a story like this in my life. (sighs) A story of drug trafficking, bribery, kidnapping, and even murder, which earned you the nickname of America's dirtiest cop, and I want to know everything.

Okay. But let's just be clear, if you choose to have a conversation with me about this, you're gonna hear things that you won't like.

Jesus Christ. (breathes quavily)

Let me just say this, being a New York cop was the greatest job in the world, but it's not built for somebody to come in and be the knight in shining armor. You're working minimal wage, civilians are against you, and you're directly told not to make drug arrests.

Why?

Well, because they got a budget to manage, and the average amount of overtime for one crack arrest was 18 hours. So, that leads to the streets becoming unwieldy. So what happens is a guy like me, who's entrepreneurial spirit shows up and says, "There's a way to control this. I can't arrest them, so I tax them."

And that escalated?

Greed is powerful, bro. (laughs)

But what happens then?

You become God. I was making more than the president of the United States by protecting one of the largest drug trafficking organizations in New York. But I was losing control, and I became the face of New York City's corruption problem. People wanted me dead.

And then in 1992, you were arrested and you admitted to hundreds of crimes. But what about your family at this point?

You know, that was tough. (instrumental music plays) They're really special people.

Mike, we spoke to your parents. Do you want to see what they said?

I'm Carol Dowd, and, uh, I'm Michael Dowd's mother.

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Right.

And I watched that over and over again in your interviews, and I wondered, as I watched people calling you New York's dirtiest cop, how that makes you feel?

(laughs) Not good. Yeah, and that's a touchy subject, and, and, and, and, but I accept it, and I've turned it, uh, into something where I'm able to may- maybe ch- chaperone an audience because of it. But it's not nice to hear that... More importantly, it's not nice for your parents to hear something like that. And thank God they're still alive, but, you know, it's not the happy day when your mother says, sees your name on the front page of the newspaper, I'll tell you that, and f- for nothing good, you know?