This news from Los Angeles: The police commission has named a panel of experts to root out causes of the city’s widening police corruption and brutality scandal and, if necessary, recommend a sweeping overhaul. The Rampart Independent Review Panel will consist of two dozen experts, including attorneys, professors, management consultants and veterans of the Christopher Commission, which investigated allegations of brutality and racism in the Los Angeles Police Department stemming from the Rodney King beating. The panel plans to issue recommendations in the fall. Almost since the scandal broke last fall, there have been calls for an independent panel to investigate allegations that anti-gang officers in the Rampart Station framed, beat and shot innocent civilians.