RAMPART SCANDAL

Rampart Scandal

Rampart Scandal

The Rampart Division scandal erupted over a year ago, when the officer Rafael Perez of the Rampart CRASH anti-gang unit pleaded guilty to stealing drugs from evidence lockers where they keep selling them. In exchange for a lesser sentence, began to sing about the wrongdoing of CRASH (Johnson, 2004). More than a year before it was unveiled publicly the Rampart scandal, the LAPD learned that Rafael Perez was a drug dealer and tried to solve the problem in silence. But one sector of the ruling class decided it was necessary to remove the dirt in the sun to ...