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...minority communities toward former chief Daryl Gates' department, culminating in the uproar over the 1991 beating of Rodney King. But the Rampart scandal has taken police misconduct to a new level of lawlessness and given currency to a new term: the gangster cop--not much different from the gang members the police are battling. As investigators work to get to the bottom of it all--and to separate the good cops from the bad--a city is wrestling with a larger question: Who will police the police...
...area back, the L.A.P.D. established a special antigang unit, Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, or CRASH. In addition to their weapons and swagger, CRASH officers were armed with a powerful legal tool--sweeping antigang injunctions (since lifted) that gave them free rein to push around suspected gang members. Among the offenses the injunction covered: blocking sidewalks and carrying pagers...
There have long been complaints that Rampart cops were playing dirty. "It's been happening for years," says Alex Sanchez, a former gang member arrested by Rampart and facing deportation. "We've seen cops take drugs and let the youths go. We've seen them plant drugs on others. Youths have been saying, 'That wasn't mine. He planted it on me!' But who would believe them?" The fact was, as long as the complaints were coming from suspected gang members--some of whom had criminal records--no one much seemed to care. "If you peeled the layers back...
...LAPD is hoping the 362-page mea culpa it delivered Wednesday will keep the federal government at bay. The perpetually rehabilitating police force is feeling the heat as details emerge about its worst-ever scandal, which includes horrifying reports of police corruption and violence in an anti-gang unit. But the eerie familiarity of the report assembled by the LAPD Board of Inquiry and posted on the department's web site (www.lapdonline.org) has many in the city hoping that federal intervention is still...
...neighborhood has always been a mix, and we've gotten along well," D'Onofrio says. "But now, we have gangs and gang-related graffiti, because the young ones don't know the seniors, members of one [nationality] don't know the other...