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...plagued by gang violence, simmering racial tensions and a sordid history of police misconduct. The department was, and still is, under federal supervision to mind its civil rights Ps and Qs as part of a 2001 consent decree following the scandal involving an LAPD anti-gang unit in the Rampart division, whose cops committed acts of corruption and brutality...
...their old neighborhoods, the police--demoralized by scandal--are backing out of them. In the mid-'90s, the L.A.P.D. curtailed gang violence with some hard-nosed policing, spearheaded by tough CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) units. But after Rafael Perez, a rogue cop from the L.A.P.D.'s Rampart division, was arrested in 1998 for stealing cocaine from a police warehouse, he implicated 70 antigang cops, alleging corruption, excessive force, planting evidence and falsifying testimony. In the end, eight cops were indicted; of these, four were cleared, three pleaded to lesser crimes, and one is awaiting trial...
...result of his testimony--which helped secure Perez a plea bargain and reduced sentence, though its accuracy is a subject of intense debate--some 100 gang convictions were overturned. The city is facing as much as $125 million in liability claims stemming from the Rampart scandal...
Chino's terms of parole barred him from returning to the Playboys' territory, around the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Fedora Street in L.A.'s Rampart district, but he quickly reappeared at his old haunts anyway. He set about goading some of the younger homeboys to "put some work in" for the gang. That usually meant getting stoned, then driving a car through a rival gang's neighborhood while shooting out the window. Word got back to the parole officer that Chino was out causing trouble, and the police did a parole search of his house and found...
...appeal directly to voters. To get such a measure passed in the midst of California's fiscal crisis, he will need the public to accept his claim that better policing is the reason for the drop in crime rates. As he put it to his officers at the Rampart roll call, "It is going to be a hard sell, quite frankly, but the harder you work, the better story you give me to tell--that the only thing that works against crime in the U.S. is you." He means to prove the moral of his tale by reducing Los Angeles...