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Re:Gang Members Hold Positions at ‘Highest Levels’ of LA She... by Balgair on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @11:27AM (#35071003)
> This is the first I’m hearing about it.

The corruption in southland policing departments is absolutely nothing new. Rampart comes easily to mind here, but the list is unfortunately a long one and wikipedia has many documented examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal

Rampart, for instance, was such a large media issue that they even made a movie about it. Not a small one either: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640548/

EDIT: Dorner should also ring a lot of bells too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_a...

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Re:Gang Members Hold Positions at ‘Highest Levels’ of LA She... by tstrimple on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @03:32PM (#35074360)
I need to get off the internet. I thought the rampart scandal was about Woody Harrelson's disastrous AMA on Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/p9a1v/im_woody_harrel...

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Re:Gang Members Hold Positions at ‘Highest Levels’ of LA She... by voltaireodactyl on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @04:09PM (#35074760)
They’re related — the AMA was the scandal around the PR for the movie based on the scandal ;)
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