Tag: Rampart Scandal

Careers
LAPD Rampart's Special Problems Unit
The LAPD's Rampart Division may be the agency's smallest geographic area, but its steady flow of house burglaries, auto thefts, and meth-fueled crime offer the Special Problems Unit plenty of opportunity for targeted enforcement.
March 14, 2013
LAPD Rampart's SPU tests new equipment such as a V-8 Dodge Charger. Photo by Blake Bobit.
Gangs
Movie Review: Rampart
"Rampart" is another depiction of the evil white-guy cop, played this time by over-the-top Woody Harrelson, and the good black guy played by gangbanger-gone-actor Ice Cube.
February 13, 2012
Screenshot: Rampart
Gangs
Equal Justice Under the Law?
If ending corruption is the real goal, let's apply all the regulations equally across the board. I can support mandatory financial disclosure for all gang-unit officers, if this attempt to ensure equal justice under the law is applied to all corruptible government employees equally.
February 7, 2011
Los Angeles attorney Richard Fine was jailed and disbarred, when he exposed the fact that Superior Court judges have been receiving illegal money under the table from county supervisors in addition to their lawful salary from the state. He made the October 2010 cover of California Lawyer.
Special Units
High-Crime LAPD Gang Units Dismantled
All but one of the roughly 80 gang officers in the Southeast, 77th, Northeast and Hollenbeck divisions - areas that are home to some of the city's most violent and active gangs - refused.
February 1, 2011
Special Units
LAPD Gang Cops Leave Rather Than Disclose Finances
Dozens of Los Angeles Police officers assigned to gang units are leaving their assignments rather than agreeing to new disclosure rules that require them to provide detailed records of their finances.
January 10, 2011
Gangs
A Jaundiced Eye and Blood Red Ink
The Times apparently now has a policy of protecting teen suspects from public exposure, while choosing to expose a witness who courageously risked testifying in the court. As the LAPPL aptly asked, "Why do this?" The answer is shameful: to sell papers.
October 27, 2010
Informant Michael Robinson suffered a heart attack that may have been a result of the intimidation he experienced, after a newspaper story identified him. Photo courtesy of Richard Valdemar.
Gangs
Gangsters in Blue
What are these cops thinking? Don't they realize that they are being used by the gang? Can't they see that should their gang friends become engaged in a violent situation (which is inevitable) there can be no good outcome for the badged members and associates?
May 24, 2010
Special Units
LAPD Struggles To Fill Openings In Gang Unit
Candidates to work gang-related assignments for the Los Angeles Police Department have been reluctant to volunteer because of a new rule passed in the spring that requires them to disclose details of their personal finances.
December 29, 2009
Patrol
Judge Lifts LAPD Consent Decree
U.S. District Court Judge Gary A. Feess has terminated the consent decree federal officials forced on the LAPD in 2001 in the wake of the Rampart corruption scandal, the Los Angeles Times reports.
July 19, 2009
In September, the LAPD opened the new Rampart Station further west of the original station built in 1966 that was the setting of the Rampart scandal. Photo courtesy of Ucla90024 (Wikimedia).
Patrol
LAPD Seeks Lifting of Consent Decree
The Los Angeles Police Department will make the case that it no longer requires federal oversight, during a June 15 hearing in front of U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess, the Los Angeles Times reports.
June 7, 2009
Patrol
Report Shows Gains by LAPD
Several years of court-ordered reforms appear to be paying off for the Los Angeles Police Department, which has made significant gains in the opinions of Angelenos, according to a Harvard University study.
May 17, 2009
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