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Report Finds LAPD Anti-Gang Unit Routinely Made Up Own Rules

HeadlineMar 01, 2000

A scandal-plagued anti-gang unit at the Los Angeles Police Department routinely made up its own rules, with no or little supervision. That’s according to a 362-page LAPD report scheduled to be made public today. According to the Los Angeles Times and Daily News of Los Angeles, the report says there were plenty of red flags indicating corruption and abuses by police, but no one in authority seems to have noticed or dealt with the warning signs. Officers in the anti-gang unit are accused of beating, framing and shooting innocent people. Twenty police officers have been relieved of duty in the scandal. Forty convictions have been overturned due to tainted evidence, and scores of other cases are being reviewed.

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