-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.html From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [A-M] LAPD Date: Friday, March 24, 2000 9:30 AM AUDREY'S MISSILES A weekly newsletter dedicated to the peaceful reform of the United States government. .SCANDAL SATURATION The Los Angeles Times reports that Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky branded the Rampart police scandal an "assault on democracy", as local officials intensified their calls for an independent investigation into the Los Angeles Police Department's deepening corruption crisis. The story of the scandal began to take shape when Rafael Perez was arrested in August 1998 for stealing eight pounds of cocaine from an evidence room. News of it broke when Perez pleaded guilty to four counts of grand theft of cocaine and four counts of possession of cocaine for sale, which could mean five years in prison. Hoping for a lighter sentence, he began telling investigators about alleged misconduct among fellow officers, saying that they beat, framed, stole from and shot innocent people in the city' s crime-ridden Rampart area, near downtown. Recently sentenced under a plea bargain that grants him immunity for other crimes he has admitted to investigators, Perez was sentenced to five years and given credit for the time he has already spent in custody. As a result of the revelations, Javier Francisco Ovando was released from a prison where he had been serving a 23-year sentence. Perez now says he and a former partner handcuffed Ovando in 1996, shot him, planted a gun on him and then lied about the confrontation in court. Ovando was paralyzed in the shooting. Nine men whose convictions were overturned have so far been released from prison. As of late February, 20 officers had been relieved of duty and 40 tainted convictions have been overturned as the result of the Perez confessions. At least a hundred more cases are under review. There are even reports that Police officers at the city's scandal-plagued Rampart station had the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service deport illegal Mexican immigrants who said they witnessed police abuse. The FBI and U.S. attorney's office have recently joined the Los Angeles Police Department in the investigation. . The Los Angeles Times says, "Although the city attorney publicly says that the city's liability in cases arising from the Rampart scandal should be no more than $125 million in settlement costs, it is far more likely that the city could face a payoff of well more than $1 billion," a cost which could well bankrupt the city. The council's Budget and Finance Committee urged rejection of the mayor's proposal to sell $300 million due the city over 25 years as its share of the national tobacco lawsuit case, for about $100 million now. They want to wait to decide what to do. A number of lawsuits have already been filed. Cleaning up the Los Angeles police Department has tried before, and more than once. There have been Commissions reporting with recommendations for change, but nothing happens. While the beating of Rodney King sparked riots in Watts a few years ago, this time no one seems outraged. It is probably because so many people already know about police corruption in Los Angeles and police corruption in most of our big cities. There have been so many scandals in police departments, in the judicial system in general, and most of all in Washington D.C., the public is no longer surprised or outraged. We are scandal saturated. 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