LAPD Rampart Scandal
Steve Johnson
06-13-2011
The Rampart Scandal
The Rampart Scandal is about a widespread corruption in the community resources against street hoodlums or better known as “CRASH” anti-gain unit of the LAPD Rampart division in the late 1990's. More than 70 police officers in the CRASH unit were implicated in misconduct, making it one of the worst cases of documented police misconduct in US history. The convicted offenses include unprovoked shootings, unprovoked beatings, planting of evidence, framing of suspects, steeling and dealing narcotics, bank robbery, perjury, and covering up evidence of these activities.
The Rampart Scandal is well known in pop culture because at least 3 rampart police were found to be on the pay roll of hip …show more content…
At the top of this list was officer David Mack a member of the bloods and ties with death roll records. On November 6,1997 722,000 dollars was stolen in an armed robbery of Los Angeles branch of Bank Of America. David went into the bank asking security to get into his safety deposit box. He was involved with a women by the name Errolyn Romero, who was an Ass. Manager at the bank. Romero buzzed him through the first gate, then lest her window and unlocked a second security door that opened into the vault area. Mack then pushed Romero to the floor, opened his suit jacket to reveal a semiautomatic pistol hanging from a shoulder strap, pointing it at two woman counting the money and threatened them. By the time Mack and his accomplices dump there white van a half mile away, they had pulled off one of the largest heis in Los Angeles history. One month later his girlfriend confess to her role in the crime and implicated her boyfriend, David Mack as the master mind. Mack was found guilty and sentenced to 14 years in federal prison. Mack was one of many officers that didn't cooperate with police after getting caught. He was never revealed the were abouts of the money, bragging to fellow inmates that he would be a millionaire by the time he is
06-13-2011
The Rampart Scandal
The Rampart Scandal is about a widespread corruption in the community resources against street hoodlums or better known as “CRASH” anti-gain unit of the LAPD Rampart division in the late 1990's. More than 70 police officers in the CRASH unit were implicated in misconduct, making it one of the worst cases of documented police misconduct in US history. The convicted offenses include unprovoked shootings, unprovoked beatings, planting of evidence, framing of suspects, steeling and dealing narcotics, bank robbery, perjury, and covering up evidence of these activities.
The Rampart Scandal is well known in pop culture because at least 3 rampart police were found to be on the pay roll of hip …show more content…
At the top of this list was officer David Mack a member of the bloods and ties with death roll records. On November 6,1997 722,000 dollars was stolen in an armed robbery of Los Angeles branch of Bank Of America. David went into the bank asking security to get into his safety deposit box. He was involved with a women by the name Errolyn Romero, who was an Ass. Manager at the bank. Romero buzzed him through the first gate, then lest her window and unlocked a second security door that opened into the vault area. Mack then pushed Romero to the floor, opened his suit jacket to reveal a semiautomatic pistol hanging from a shoulder strap, pointing it at two woman counting the money and threatened them. By the time Mack and his accomplices dump there white van a half mile away, they had pulled off one of the largest heis in Los Angeles history. One month later his girlfriend confess to her role in the crime and implicated her boyfriend, David Mack as the master mind. Mack was found guilty and sentenced to 14 years in federal prison. Mack was one of many officers that didn't cooperate with police after getting caught. He was never revealed the were abouts of the money, bragging to fellow inmates that he would be a millionaire by the time he is