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Rampart Reconsidered - Executive Summary
Rampart Reconsidered - Appendices Final
"Seven years after the Rafael Perez scandal rocked the LAPD, the Rampart Division has become transformed into a model of modern policing. But city leaders have failed to take critical steps to prevent future breakdowns. In the fifth postmortem of the 1999 scandal that grew out of cover-ups and crimes by former Rampart anti-gang officers, the panel headed by civil-rights attorney Connie Rice said L.A.'s civic culture has resisted facing core social and policing problems for decades and remains the biggest obstacle to progress. The Rice report says the Los Angeles Police Department remains an "upside down" department that puts its least-experienced and lowest-paid staffers on the front lines, lacks adequate resources and still has a widespread culture of "warrior policing." It accused city officials of paying little attention to long-term problem-solving and called on civic organizations and neighborhood groups to take more responsibility for tackling the social problems that breed "cultures of destruction."
