CITY OF SHARKS - PART 3

Arthur 'Neddy' Smith: the dirty detective
Michael Duffy explores the dark side of Sydney. Part three looks at the relationship between Neddy Smith and Roger Rogerson.
ARTHUR Smith was born in 1944 and grew into a major criminal, involved particularly in armed robbery, heroin trafficking and murder.
He became a Sydney celebrity because of his close relationship during the 1980s with controversial detective Roger Rogerson. It was the type of relationship that had often flourished before. Smith, like other successful criminals, survived by being a regular police informer. But in this case it attracted considerable publicity because the media and other institutions had started to take a keen interest in corruption.

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[rumourNo1]

Well said good reporting, The crims and coppers of those days did the job the old fashioned way. which in my opinion was better, There are more crime more murders these days cos the cops really have no power, when rogerson was doing his thing there was loyalty and order after all good and evil(not alot of difference. the drug syndicates did make more money but they lost the structure and made greedy silly mistakes, more murders it not worth the risk,