Victim of Rampart scandal arrested after high-speed chase

Los Angeles Times ^ | 06-30-08 | Richard Winton

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“Javier Francisco Ovando, who was awarded a $15-million settlement in the wake of the LAPD Rampart scandal in the 1990s, is arrested after leading police on a chase from Glendale to South San Gabriel.”

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I wrote something about gangs and the Rampart Scandal here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038866/posts

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HERE IS THE LINK I REFERRED TO:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038866/posts

I DON”T KNOW WHY THE HTML DOESN’T WORK WHEN I POST AN ARTICLE.

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What COLOR was he?

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I DON”T KNOW WHY THE HTML DOESN’T WORK WHEN I POST AN ARTICLE.

Are you logged on?

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Interesting little piece of trivia about the Rampart scandal: the majority of the officers involved were officers the department declined to hire. They were then hired anyway, despite the department’s objections, by the city’s personnel department which was carrying out a federal court consent decree. So, we can pretty much thank the federal court for the scandal though, for some reason, they’ve declined to appear to accept their award.

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“the majority of the officers involved were officers the department declined to hire.”

This is very interesting.

I think there is more to this but I’m not sure what.

Thanks for the information.

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