Woody Harrelsonplays ‘Date Rape’ Dave Brown, a bulldog beat cop working in LA’s infamous Rampart division during the long-running late ’90s corruption scandal which would ultimately tear the department apart. Brown is the ultimate cinematic expression of Ellroy’s archetypal hero: a conflicted...
参考资料:1 "Rampart Scandal" - Los Angeles Times 2 "The LAPD's Rampart Scandal: A Dark Chapter in Los Angeles Policing" 3 "Bell Corruption Scandal" - Los Angeles Times 4 "Political Corruption in Bell, California" - California State Auditor 展开更多 ...
Rampart is set against the backdrop of the 1999 Rampart scandal, a division of the LAPD that was so awash with corruption and misconduct it served as the inspiration behind The Shield (if you haven’t seen it, buy it at the same time as Dark Blue, please). Enter Woody Harrelson’s Da...
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The conviction was overturned after the two officers emerged as key figures in the Rampart corruption scandal, which involved dozens of cases of police misconduct including beatings, shootings, and false arrests of gang members. Ovando was later awarded a $15-million settlement as the highest-pro...
Assault under Color of Authority: Police Corruption as Norm in the LAPD Rampart Scandal and in Popular Film* * For help with comments, research and proofre... This article argues that the frequency and intensity of police corruption scandals indicate that they are not "corruptions" but are the...
The Rampart Scandal refers to the corruption of police officers assigned to the street gangs task force. The police officers did not enter the task force against street gangs in Los Angeles with intentions of becoming corrupt. Instead, this happened because of their poor decisions at the moments...
We talk to the filmmaker behind this week's cop drama set in a corruption-riddled precinct of the LAPD. Director Oren Moverman worked as a screenwriter before making his feature debut with 2009’sThe Messenger, a moving, well-received war drama that garnered Oscar nominations both for his sc...
he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. Brown internalizes his fear, anguish and paranoia as his world, complete with two ex-wives who...
"Assault under Color of Authority: Police Corruption as Norm in the LAPD Rampart Scandal and in Popular Film." New Political Science 25 (2003): 385-405.Grant, J. (2003). Assault under Color of Authority: Police Corruption as Norm in the LADP Rampart Scandal and in Popular Film. New ...