Academy Events Presents:
From New York’s Precinct “The Seven Five”..Mike Dowd & Walter Yurkiw
(In conversation)
O2 Academy Sheffield
Sunday 4th June 2017
Tickets: £25adv Standard / £50 VIP
This is a seated show.
Event Details
Under 14’s Must be accompanied by an adult
Under 25’s require I.D to purchase alcohol
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From New York Precinct " THE SEVEN FIVE " An Evening with Mike Dowd and Walter Yurkiw.
FORMER NEW YORK CITY’S MOST CORRUPT COP AND STAR OF THE HIT NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY, THE SEVEN FIVE.
Spend an evening with former members of New York’s finest, Officer Michael Dowd and Officer Walter Yurkiw; who in the 80’s became two of the most dangerous drug dealers in uniform.
“I considered myself both a cop and a gangster,” Michael Dowd.
Michael Dowd, the most notorious cop in New York City’s history will relive what it was like to patrol one of the most violent precincts in Brooklyn during the explosive “Crack” epidemic.
The critically acclaimed documentary, “The Seven Five”, chronicles a real-life thriller of dirty police work and the early days of crack cocaine. Dowd will share his escapades of drug use, drug trafficking, robbery, extortion and protecting criminals. He was the most intimidating crooked cop of all time on the hellhole streets of East New York.
Dowd will share his temptation for corruption after being assigned to work the toughest neighborhood of New York. He will be joined by Walter Yurkiw to share their journey of the biggest corruption scandal in the history of New York. They will discuss what it was like to be untouchable by both law enforcement and the most dangerous gangs in New York.
The event will give fans of the doc. the opportunity to have a Q&A and get behind the stories and the scenes with Dowd and Yurkiw. Dowd’s shares what life was like as a police officer and a gangster in the 80’s early 90’s. He will discuss how his empire came to an end, his 14 years behind bars as a former police officer, how his personal life was shattered and his ongoing journey on the road to redemption.
From New York Precinct " THE SEVEN FIVE " An Evening with Mike Dowd and Walter Yurkiw.
FORMER NEW YORK CITY’S MOST CORRUPT COP AND STAR OF THE HIT NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY, THE SEVEN FIVE.
The Seven Five Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBB7DolmQPY
The Seven Five, also known as Precinct Seven Five, is a 2014 documentary directed by Tiller Russell, and produced by Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, and Sheldon Yellen. The film looks at police corruption in the 75th precinct of the New York Police Department during the 1980s. The documentary focuses around Michael Dowd, a former police officer of 10 years, who was arrested in 1992, leading to one of the largest police corruption scandals in New York City history.
The documentary uses footage from the Mollen Commission investigation in 1992 and also provides in-depth commentary from Dowd, Ken Eurell, and Adam Diaz, among others.
The documentary premiered at DOC NYC November 14, 2014. Sony Pictures recently purchased the rights of The Seven Five documentary in an auction.PlotIn the 1980s, Brooklyn, New York was considered the crack capital of the world. Mike Dowd worked in the NYPD's 75th Precinct in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, which was considered to be the most dangerous precinct in United States at the time.
The 75th Precinct had one of the highest murder rates in the country during the late 1980s. Dowd describes being under-appreciated for the amount of work he put in and hurting for money as the reasons for taking money from drug dealers. He initially began taking bribes from drug dealers on the streets before moving on to protecting a drug cartel leader and robbing from other drug dealers at gunpoint.
Dowd and his then-partner Henry "Chicky" Guevara recount the first time walking into a domestic dispute in an apartment and seeing bags of marijuana, a duffle bag filled with approximately $20,000 in cash and two guns. Dowd communicated that he and his partner would take the duffle bag and guns. Dowd continued to rob drug dealers for thousands of dollars. Guevara resigned shortly after multiple police officers were arrested in the 77th Precinct for corruption related offenses.
