Lapd's Rampart Scandal Summary

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The article, “Looking Through the Gaps: A Critical Approach to the LAPD’s Rampart Scandal” by Paul J. Kaplan is about corrupt officers in the Community Resource Against Street Hoodlums special units for Los Angeles Police Department. Officer Perez pointed out seventy officers that were breaking the law. The main issue behind this scandal was that police officers was the misconduct of using probable cause to arrest suspect. They were framing innocent people when they encounter them and putting evidence next to a person when a they shot someone. Officer Mack had “convinced his girlfriend that work in at a bank in Los Angeles to help him rob over $700,000 in November 1996” (Kaplan 2009, 63). He was arrested a year later and investigators found

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