35: Part 1: Rich Meraz and the LAPD Rampart Scandal
Game of Crimes
Game of Crimes
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🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
Rich Meraz worked his way through the ranks of LAPD to eventually become a Captain and assigned to the Rampart Divison. Even though he had worked counterterrorism, narcotics, and even the 1984 Olympic Games, but his biggest test was yet to come. In 1998, LAPD began an internal investigation into the CRASH unit. Over 70 officers were implicated in wrongdoing, and some went to prison. Rich was caught up in the middle, and also paid a price. Hear the real story of what inspired numerous movies including Training Day with Denzel Washington. Rich Meraz puts it all out there- the good, the bad and the very ugly.
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| 0:00.0 | Rich Maraz talks about a big mistake he made just out of the academy and working undercover. |
| 0:19.1 | So they said, no, we're going to all take, we're going to all use and so are you. He tells |
| 0:23.8 | me and they all get up and they're coming towards me now. |
| 0:27.6 | And I look out the window and I'm thinking there's only one place to go out that window |
| 0:33.5 | and I'm gone because the window was open. It wasn't a two story drop because it was |
| 0:37.8 | a slope. So it was probably about a half story drop. And I literally dove out that window, |
| 0:44.1 | landed on my feet, took out, I could hear him screaming and hollering and I ran all the |
| 0:48.7 | way to Parker Center. I was just about ready to finish my three month assignment anyway. |
| 0:53.7 | So when I got to Parker Center, they all started laughing at me and they said, you know what, |
| 0:57.7 | you are so damn lucky. You're stupid. You broke, you know, blah, blah, blah. So my last |
| 1:02.8 | two weeks of undercover white program, I was in the San Fernando Valley hanging out |
| 1:07.8 | at bars. Welcome to Game of Crimes. |
| 1:29.0 | Welcome back players, player ads to the biggest baddest, most dangerous episode of all. |
| 1:34.8 | Oh, no, this is not, well, this could be the most dangerous episode of all. |
| 1:37.6 | We just got done with the good one. Hey, I am Morgan, right? I am one of the hosts of |
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| 2:01.2 | There you go. Your grandmother was run over by a reindeer. So we'll see. Right. Welcome back. |
| 2:06.8 | Well, hey, we guys, thank you again. Another week, a fun and sun. Well, for one of us, |
| 2:10.6 | son, Murf down there, Tannen is spindly white legs, my ball head. Yeah, my ball head. |
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