what was the rampart scandal?
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In the late 90s the Rampart division of the LAPD put together an elite task force to focus on the street gangs. The goal was to reduce the crimes, violence and drugs in the slums. It was later discovered that this task force had been badly mismanaged. The police officers were encouraged to take down the gangsters by any means necessary. Even if this meant planting evidence, lying in court, working for rival gangs or even just assassinating the gangsters on the street. Many of the police officers became integrated into the street gangs working for them and for their own personal gains more then for the public. For example in one case an undercover officer had a chance encounter with an off duty officer in the same task force and mistaking him for a gang member shot the off duty officer to death on the street. In another case an officer planned and executed a bank robbery allegedly to pay his debt to a hitman he had hired to kill two rappers.
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