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Horowitz: Post-Rampart LAPD recruited gang members who killed Notorious B.I.G.
“What happened in the LAPD with the Rampart scandal right after the Rodney King incident They had the same kind of thing. Everybody got fired, et cetera. They had trouble recruiting. They started recruiting people out of gangs and those gang members ended up, y…”
Horowitz: LAPD corruption and rogue officers protected Tupac Shakur's killers
“Well, in that case, the LAPD was corrupt, and the, well, there were literally criminals in the police force protecting the criminals who killed Tupac, and, you know, thankfully, we kind of reopened the cold case, and we caught the guy, but it's,”
A fund invested $50M on the condition Adam O'Neill quit the LAPD
“They gave me a meeting, and long and short, they invested fifty million dollars into my idea, and with the caveat that I have to leave the police department, and which I did.”
Coogan: Caruso employs open-carrying LAPD officers and facial recognition at The Grove
“They have off duty LAPD officers who actually open carry a sidearm. They used to be discreet kind of undercover, but then they changed this to carry to show the gun. And they also have facial recognition cameras, license plate scanners, a bunch of different te…”
Gatina: Helinet provided aerial surveillance as a service to law enforcement
“We just kind of cracked the code at Helinet on being able to provide surveillance as a service. It's a different kind of SaaS business, but where you're basically doing aerial surveillance for law enforcement agencies or clients, right? So it could be DEA, FBI…”
Glock: Skid Row camping enforcement cut crime and violence by 40%
“A study done right afterwards showed that crime and violence in the area, mainly against the homeless themselves, went down 40%, and it didn't seem to spill over to these other neighborhoods.”
DuVernay: Rodney King video was first national police assault without punishment
“Really the first video footage of a police Assault that reached national prominence was still not enough to result in any kind of, you know, punishment for the officers who were involved.”
Ice Cube: LAPD's war on gangs targeted all Black and Brown youth
“You know, we was dealing with Daryl Gates, who was the chief of police in Los Angeles at the time, and he had declared a war on gangs. Now, to most law-abiding citizens, a war on gangs sound pretty good, but if they think every black teenager They run across, …”