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Just in the year alone, CPD records show there have been 12 calls for intoxicated people, eight disturbance calls, seven fight calls, one gang call, one overdose and 11 suspicious person calls...
...cops in the anti-gang unit in Los Angeles' Rampart division had a motto: "We intimidate those who intimidate others." They worked the city's most violent neighborhoods, met firepower with firepower and succeeded in bringing gang-related crimes down 60% from 1992 to 1999. But the unit has been roiled by charges that its Dirty Harry tactics went too far, and last week a jury finally called it to account. In the first of what may be a series of trials, three Rampart officers were found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct justice by planting evidence and framing gang members...
...member commission that released a highly critical report on the L.A.P.D. last Thursday. Drooyan's report, ordered by the city's board of police commissioners, found a "fundamental problem of supervision and leadership" in the department. These problems were acute in specialized units like the Rampart anti-gang CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) unit, which "developed an independent subculture that embodied a 'war on gangs' mentality where the ends justified the means...
...CRASH unit broke open the scandal a year ago--because of concerns about his credibility. A former girlfriend accused him of three murders, about which he indicated he would plead the Fifth Amendment on the stand. She later recanted, but the prosecution had to fall back on calling known gang members to testify. Yet the jury chose to believe the testimony of these men, some with long criminal records, over the evidence given by police colleagues of the accused officers. Jury questions to the judge indicated a high degree of skepticism over police witnesses' repeated lapses of memory, with...
...while charges of police misconduct continue to be examined by the courts, not much has changed on the streets. In Rampart neighborhoods, where residents still hear gunfire at night and wake up to find bloodstains and flower wreaths on the streets where gang members have been killed, there is little criticism of the police. "Sometimes it gets pretty crazy here," says Greg Taymizyan, owner of El Gallerito food market on 3rd and Rampart. He points down the street to where a shooting took place two days ago. "We need the cops here. Because of a few bad apples, you shouldn...