Investigation Finds Misconduct in Los Angeles Police Department
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- Series: Great Events: 1900-2001
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Crime, Law, Legal History, Courts
- Subcategories: Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Scandals, Latinos, Hispanics, Chicanos, Corruption, Fraud
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, Latino History
- Geographical Location: Los Angeles
- Date: March 1, 2000
Article abstract: Members of an antigang police task force of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) were discovered to have interrogated and brutalized residents without probable cause and then to have fabricated evidence to wrongfully convict more than one hundred Hispanics during the 1990’s.
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