The Los Angeles Times
Oct 2008
When the East Coast mob showed up in L.A. in 1946, the LAPD formed a ruthess special unit to run them out of town: the Gangster Squad.
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4 articles
Pacific Standard
Oct 2011
On the LAPD’s decade-old cold case division: its detectives, its tactics, and its successes.
Salon
Sep 2000
Rogue cops in the LAPD Rampart division’s anti-gang CRASH unit (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) were involved in everything from drug smuggling and bank robberies to, allegedly, the murder of Christopher “Notorious BIG” Wallace.
Maxim
Nov 2000
A profile of Rafael Pérez, an infamously corrupt LAPD officer and the inspiration behind the Vic Mackey character on The Shield.
