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evidence of gang activities. Hewitt, along with officers Ethan Cohan and Daniel Lujan, did not report this incident. When the gang member reported his beating at a hospital, evidence, including blood in the interview room, implicated the three officers. Before a Board of Rights council, only Lujan was acquitted of his role.
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Knowledge has a page for LAPD Police Chief Edward M. Davis. Davis was Chief from 1969 to 1978. Paragraph four on the Davis page states Davis created CRASH and it was sequentially in the early '70s. This page is blatantly anti-LAPD with allegations either uncited, or quoted support from a German sex
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convicted. Mostly, in all of its passive phrasing and positioning, it manages to squirm away from the taint that this incident implies. Being a bit tongue-in-cheek, I'd say that the hyper-careful sentence structure essentially reads as if the police were editing the article to deflect culpability!
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Rampart Scandal was beyond the pale, and Bernard Parks' attempts to brush it under the rug as head of IA was unconscionable; his later attempts as Chief to do
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