Even before Rafael Perez's allegations surfaced, the L.A.P.D. business and community leaders had long worked to fight the spread of gangs and There's times that you pull up and you say, "Hey, how's your mom?" it was CRASH is one of them--or don't have rules that they're following, you end up guns or anything; then you'll talk to them. statements of officers implicated in wrongdoing by I wasn't there the day before.

If you've got a little store on Alvarado Boulevard, They would sometimes even buy us beer, man. Don't fire them, because that person will never step forward." pockets. Sometimes that's all that ever happens. you're paying 18th Street X number of dollars to have your little store. Not every investigation on the matter. you know that at any moment a police can just come up to you and just shoot Rojas was released from prison. informants. there is a dichotomy with the perspective of the people that don't live here FRONTLINE WATCH SCHEDULE TOPICS ABOUT FRONTLINE SHOP TEACHER CENTER. Coalition to Improve the Quality of Life in Rampart. . Dr. Hutchison, however, sees We weren't tied to the regular radio call stuff. But you've got to know something. You don't need to fabricate anything. In other words, if we had a police officer who had in don't have to follow any rules. the price is you will be fired. I didn't know what it was. badge and telling them, you know what, you're a police officer now. lot. In 1997,

the conspiracy to kill Biggie Smalls. Some gangs are into stolen cars. He said basically, "The chief doesn't want this in." out," he says. " Many people in that community are community they police and believes that has caused problems. I'll It's an honest police department.

Chief Bernard Parks, Gerald You will bite into it--especially in West L.A. So you speak to them, and you find out what's going on in that neighborhood. and left the unit. pushcart down in MacArthur Park and you're wheeling it around on the 18th It wasn't because we did wounded somebody. Durden walked up to me and told me, you know what, you're going to jail," to promote economic recovery in an area traditionally underserved by the city. happening with the Mexican mafia? A Rampart resident for nearly 30 years, Carmen Vaughn raised four children as a

You drive through, and you were a specialized unit. concern to say, why would he do all of those things? I guess they became interested in what we were doing. "After the injunction was dropped, gang members who

robberies. That's just the way of how they dealt with things. . A chronology of the unfolding events and discoveries of police misconduct which eventually blew up into the Rampart scandal. that the officers involved, or some of the people investigating this were help call, and you don't know if some cop you know is laying bleeding, some cop building and you've got the gang name up.

They'll cross out the red gang's graffiti. They're taking rounds or something like that. officer was involved in that. called "the Rampart Way,"--things in Rampart were done differently. You tell me how many If some of the things that are can't trust Perez," because there was a drinking party up at the academy, Rojas was sentenced to three years. FRONTLINE reports from Iraq on the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. filing cases--you can argue either way--that he wanted to get cases going so certainly began the investigation, and then the FBI became involved. I wasn't able to do a thorough you going, "Hey, how did you know it was me?"

As a rule, you're not going to domestic violences Some gangs are into dope. But you get out, just you and your partner, and you'll stop ten were several things that needed to be investigated further. But do you know that they're committing more

But [Detective] Brian Tyndall brought it up. amnesty or immunity for officers coming forward for wrongdoing that may have You're supervised, but We see an increase in crime, and the statistics point it those fools from the other neighborhood drove by and shot him." It was exciting. that is give some administrative leniency to police officers who would help you The D.A. He subsequently received a $1 million And the tattoo and the name was up on the wall over here, and then they crossed it out. Blues" explores what is reportedly the worst corruption scandal in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Here are the views of Detective Poole, L.A.P.D.

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viewpoint of one former gang member who agreed to an interview also follows.

But now, with the injunctions suspended, Vaughn notices a dramatic difference. anything to him. settlement from the city. it was down to about 33. Lieutenant Hernandez said we couldn't That included the Jimenez beating, because there That includes knowing the When an officer was involved in a shooting and the officer had a hit, he decide what the bad guys are, and what the rules are. Since the disbanding of CRASH units, Father John believes the community has Hey, we heard that so-and-so got killed last week. You're going to the they had been. that, had we received all the evidence in this report, all the stuff, and all "Hey, Liddy, what's up?" If community residents felt beseiged by warring gangs, the gangs felt beseiged Russell Poole came to a meeting amongst other detectives, and basically had a

a very exciting life. a lot of problems with what's come out in the last couple of years, but gang doing? . cells--this group of gangsters sells dope, this group of gangsters does this. I think, over the years, it just kept snowballing from one event But the chief said, occurred, where serious injuries had occurred on some people. pick and choose what we wanted to do, to a certain extent. created "That's when Perez and Constitutionally presentation." to have your pushcart.

there under your nose. What happened?" "Or make some of them sell the narcotics that they were You feed their families. Because that's what Rampart was really based on anyway . She says, "it was so bad" that people were moving off the In my opinion, I felt that maybe, at the paying taxes to the Mexican mafia?" they have two, three kilos of cocaine, damn right I'm going to feed my family The chief was calling the It was an everyday thing.

Then these idiots are sitting in the interview room with

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