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On November 6, 1997, $722,000 was stolen in an armed robbery of a Los Angeles Bank of America branch. After one month of investigation, assistant bank manager Errolyn Romero confessed to her role in the crime and implicated her boyfriend LAPD officer David Mack as the mastermind.
Rampart scandal, official inquiry (1998–2000) into corruption among officers of the Rampart Division of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). More than 70 officers were implicated in misconduct, including unprovoked beatings and shootings, planting and covering up evidence, stealing and dealing.
March 27, 1998 -- Missing Cocaine. Officials in the L.A.P.D. property room discovered that six pounds of cocaine evidence are missing. Within a week, detectives focused their investigation on...
In June 2008 a federal appeals court upheld a lower court's award of $15 million ($5 million each) to three officers initially convicted in the Ramparts scandal. Two of the officers, Brian...
In August 1998, LAPD internal affairs investigators arrested Rafael Perez, at the time an officer assigned to the gang unit at the department's Rampart Division, for stealing cocaine from evidence storage.
CRASH--Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums--was a group of elite anti-gang units within the L.A.P.D. set up to tackle increasing gang-related crime. CRASH officers were required to get to...
As the Rampart Task Force Grew, Many Investigators Did Not Have Adequate Skills and Experience to Conduct Investigations into a Complex Police Corruption Scandal