35: Part 2: Rich Meraz and the LAPD Rampart Scandal
Game of Crimes
Game of Crimes
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🗓️ 10 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 Moran's talks about the things that still hurt even today. |
| 0:17.8 | During that time, did you ever have any officer shot? |
| 0:20.8 | Officers killed? |
| 0:21.8 | Yes, I did. |
| 0:22.8 | Got wrenching. |
| 0:23.8 | I still think about some of that stuff. |
| 0:33.0 | That's one thing that my son's a cop, Michael. |
| 0:36.2 | I worry to hell to death about him. |
| 0:39.0 | But I'm close to him. |
| 0:40.4 | I make sure that he's got his head screwed on straight. |
| 0:44.5 | I talk about maybe cultural changes. |
| 0:47.1 | I start to see creep up on him where he starts to get fed up. |
| 0:51.8 | For he, during dinner, will tell me, Dad, I am so damn frustrated. |
| 0:57.2 | Get calls. |
| 0:58.2 | He works on him back division. |
| 0:59.2 | A lot of gangs there where he'll tell me, you know, I get out of a black and white |
| 1:02.6 | sometimes. |
| 1:03.6 | There's people in every corner. |
| 1:05.9 | And then when we show up, everybody's got a cell phone in front of their face following |
| 1:10.8 | us. |
| 1:11.8 | Welcome to Game of Crimes. |
| 1:21.8 | So it doesn't happen in a vacuum. |
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