Barbarian observes:
It's not "more black officers and city officials"; it's "get rid of the scum", which might include some black officers/officials. When the citizens don't keep government on a short leash, government will abuse the citizens.
Sorry, Connie. Don't watch it. For the same reason I don't watch FOX. They aren't news outlets, they're just stories for suckers, both of them.
The LAPD Rampart scandal refers to widespread corruption in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (or C*R*A*S*H) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Rampart Division in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers either assigned to or associated with the Rampart CRASH unit were implicated in some form of misconduct, making it one of the most widespread cases of documented police misconduct in United States history. The convicted offenses include unprovoked shootings, unprovoked beatings, planting of false evidence, framing of suspects, stealing and dealing narcotics, bank robbery, perjury, and the covering up of evidence of these activities.
The Rampart investigation, based mainly on statements of CRASH officer Rafael Pérez (A.K.A. Ray Lopez), an admitted corrupt officer, initially implicated over 70 officers of wrongdoing. Of those officers, enough evidence was found to bring 58 before an internal administrative board. However, only 24 were actually found to have committed any wrongdoing, with 12 given suspensions of various lengths, 7 forced to resign or retire, and 5 fired. As a result of the probe into falsified evidence and police perjury, 106 prior criminal convictions were overturned. The Rampart scandal resulted in more than 140 civil lawsuits against the city of Los Angeles, costing the city an estimated $125 million in settlements.
As of 2014, the full extent of Rampart corruption is not known, and several rape, murder and robbery investigations involving Rampart officers remain unsolved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal
It was pretty much another criminal organization, within the department.
About a decade into a federal consent decree requiring the Los Angeles Police Department to hire more minority officers
(Ann Coulter)
Well, let's take a look..
We found the LAPD much changed from eight years ago, and even more so in the last four or five years. Public satisfaction is up, with 83 percent of residents saying the LAPD is doing a good or excellent job; the frequency of the use of
serious force has fallen each year since 2004. Despite the views of some officers that the consent decree inhibits them, there is no objective sign of so-called “de-policing” since 2002; indeed, we found that both the quantity and quality of enforcement activity have risen substantially over that period. The greater quantity is evident in the doubling of both pedestrian stops and motor vehicle stops since 2002, and in the rise in arrests over that same period. The greater quality of stops is evident in the higher proportion resulting in an arrest, and the quality of arrests is evident in the higher proportion in which the District Attorney files felony charges.
http://assets.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/Harvard-LAPD Study.pdf
You still haven't figured out that Coulter is also a state-worshiping moron?
Coulter, from your link:
On the other hand, more black people will be murdered, raped and maimed as crime rates rise. I guess it's really just a matter of priorities.
Or maybe she's a genius, who's made a lucrative career out of engaging morons like you. Hard to say.
It's not "more black officers and city officials"; it's "get rid of the scum", which might include some black officers/officials. When the citizens don't keep government on a short leash, government will abuse the citizens.
Sorry, Connie. Don't watch it. For the same reason I don't watch FOX. They aren't news outlets, they're just stories for suckers, both of them.
The LAPD Rampart scandal refers to widespread corruption in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (or C*R*A*S*H) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Rampart Division in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers either assigned to or associated with the Rampart CRASH unit were implicated in some form of misconduct, making it one of the most widespread cases of documented police misconduct in United States history. The convicted offenses include unprovoked shootings, unprovoked beatings, planting of false evidence, framing of suspects, stealing and dealing narcotics, bank robbery, perjury, and the covering up of evidence of these activities.
The Rampart investigation, based mainly on statements of CRASH officer Rafael Pérez (A.K.A. Ray Lopez), an admitted corrupt officer, initially implicated over 70 officers of wrongdoing. Of those officers, enough evidence was found to bring 58 before an internal administrative board. However, only 24 were actually found to have committed any wrongdoing, with 12 given suspensions of various lengths, 7 forced to resign or retire, and 5 fired. As a result of the probe into falsified evidence and police perjury, 106 prior criminal convictions were overturned. The Rampart scandal resulted in more than 140 civil lawsuits against the city of Los Angeles, costing the city an estimated $125 million in settlements.
As of 2014, the full extent of Rampart corruption is not known, and several rape, murder and robbery investigations involving Rampart officers remain unsolved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal
It was pretty much another criminal organization, within the department.
About a decade into a federal consent decree requiring the Los Angeles Police Department to hire more minority officers
(Ann Coulter)
Well, let's take a look..
We found the LAPD much changed from eight years ago, and even more so in the last four or five years. Public satisfaction is up, with 83 percent of residents saying the LAPD is doing a good or excellent job; the frequency of the use of
serious force has fallen each year since 2004. Despite the views of some officers that the consent decree inhibits them, there is no objective sign of so-called “de-policing” since 2002; indeed, we found that both the quantity and quality of enforcement activity have risen substantially over that period. The greater quantity is evident in the doubling of both pedestrian stops and motor vehicle stops since 2002, and in the rise in arrests over that same period. The greater quality of stops is evident in the higher proportion resulting in an arrest, and the quality of arrests is evident in the higher proportion in which the District Attorney files felony charges.
http://assets.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/Harvard-LAPD Study.pdf
You still haven't figured out that Coulter is also a state-worshiping moron?
Coulter, from your link:
On the other hand, more black people will be murdered, raped and maimed as crime rates rise. I guess it's really just a matter of priorities.
Or maybe she's a genius, who's made a lucrative career out of engaging morons like you. Hard to say.
