RAMPART SCANDAL

Police Scandal: Rampart



Police Scandal: Rampart

Introduction

Rampart division is a division of the Los Angeles Police Department. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the police department of Los Angeles in California, the second largest city in the USA. The motto of the LAPD is "to protect and to serve" (protect and serve). It is the third largest police department in the U.S. (after New York City Police Department and the Chicago Police Department). The Authority is world famous and was fictionalized in numerous movies and television shows (Dworkin, Ronald, 2005).

The first unit of the city police, the voluntary Los Angeles Rangers, was founded in 1853. In 1869 came the professional police force, which originally consisted of six police officers under the direction of William C. Warren. In 1900, the staff strength to 70 police officers. In the story, the LAPD is characterized by the fact again and again to break new ground. For example, the LAPD made us the first woman in U.S. police (Dworkin, Ronald, 2005). Similarly, the LAPD was the first police service dog unit (K9) in the U.S. and held the first police special unit (SWAT) in the world. In recent decades, the LAPD was regarded as underfunded and understaffed. This led to an increased volume of private security firms in Los Angeles. Especially since the race riots in 1992, the cause was that four law enforcement officers the African-American Rodney King was brutally beaten, there are repeated allegations of racism against the LAPD. These allegations intensified after the trial of OJ Simpson, in the Mark Fuhrman, one of the then investigating officers several times been racially abusive (he described Black people as "niggers") and of operations reported in which people had been mistreated specifically with darker skin color. Also, in many places of authority prevailing corruption and abuse of authority is criticized (Dworkin, Ronald, 2005).

Talking about the rampart scandal, in 1992, the Los Angeles Police Department investigated a staggering 1,092 murders, the most in the city's history (Garoupa, Nuno, Klerman, Daniel, 2002). The number had risen more or less steadily through the late '80s and into the '90s with the advent of the crack cocaine trade and the gang violence that accompanied it, but since that high-water (high-blood?) year of 1992, homicide in the city has declined in almost every year, with the LAPD recording 297 murders in 2010 (Garoupa, Nuno, Klerman, Daniel, 2002).

Last year was the first in which Los Angeles saw fewer than 300 murders since 1967, a time when the city had 1.5 million fewer residents. The only interruption to this long, steady decline came in the years 1998 through 2002, when the tally rose from 419 to 647 (Garoupa, Nuno, Klerman, Daniel, 2002). We may soon see another rise in killing on the streets of L.A., and for reasons very similar to those that engendered the one that began in 1998. In August 1998, LAPD internal affairs investigators arrested Rafael Perez, at the time an officer assigned to the gang unit at ...