DOSSIER SEASON II - BONUS EPISODE. 5: THE RAMPART REPORT

If you say the name Rampart to anyone, maybe they have heard and identify it with an immense police scandal inside the Los Angeles Police Department.

In this podcast, I believe if you counted, it has been mentioned 100s of times.

There also is case to be made that when people say RAMPART, they might tell you they know what the story is, BUT DO THEY REALLY understand and know the various aspects of it?

Now coming up on its 25 year anniversary, I felt the need to really go back in time for my own personal knowledge to examine each aspect of it.

In the words of famed journalist and author Randall Sullivan, Rampart might be the biggest LIE that an American police department has ever spun.

Even more importantly, I wanted to undertake this exercise because I have a feeling very soon, Rampart will be back in the American cultural zeitgeist with television specials or documentary series, everyone in TV loves an anniversary, so for me I am just getting a head start.

With the Dossier, what I have tried to do is base my reporting and investigating on a road map, and the road map I want to use for these series of episodes on Rampart, is a document titled: The Los Angeles Police Department Board of Inquiry into the Rampart Area Corruption Incident, authored by the illustrious Los Angeles ex-Chief of Police Bernard C. Parks written March 1, 2000.

I will be pulling information from the report, written by the police department itself to see, where are the lies, where are the contradictions, and where is the spin.

Maybe at this point three years post scandal, the LAPD decided it was time to come clean, or MAYBE this report was the NARRATIVE that Parks wanted to be cemented in History.

We will find out together some of those answers and more.

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