Rampart scandal

The Los Angeles Police Department’s Rampart CRASH unit was established in the 1990s to deal with the gang problems facing the city. CRASH stood for Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums which was an anti-gang unit of police officers. There were around seventy officers involved in the Rampart CRASH unit that were a part of the scandal that took place, making the LAPD Rampart scandal one of the largest police corruption scandals that happened in the United States. Within the scandal many officers were responsible for unnecessary shootings and beatings along with false evidence claims and stealing, and many more. This feared many in communities to be afraid of officers and what they could do. As a part of the CRASH unit the officers…

Every year we hear of a sporting scandal that shocks fans around the world. In 2016 it was the FIFA corruptions scandal, the deflategate scandal of 2015, in 2012 the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, and many more in every sport imaginable. These events are horrible for fans, as their beloved sport become ruined by the greed and evil nature of just a select few. It spoils the image of a league or organization and makes all the parties involved look bad. In all these cases, the suspects are…

United States. However, this immaculate reputation has been tarnished in the wake of the recent fake accounts scandal. Since the beginning of the decade, the employees of the bank have created millions of fake credit cards and bank accounts. From 2011 to 2016, this banking institution has managed to collect a staggering $2.6 million in consumer fees (Partnoy & Eisinger, 2016). The collection of this huge amount of money is a direct outcome of the trend of the employees to set up fake accounts.…

increased in the light of Trumps campaign. There are reasons to be genuinely afraid and we shouldn’t pass it off as irrational and something you need to ignore and not talk about because “everything will be okay in the end.” This also applies to certain mechanisms that suggest we halt any political discussion with others just to avoid conflict. The main goal should be to find a medium between ignorance as bliss, and the constant absorption and worry about every little issue and dramatic scandal…

Throughout the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s there seems to be very consistent themes regarding how the respective decades viewed politicians, their campaigning, and most of all their behavior and actions while doing so. Every single main character in the four movies has at least one obvious affair, being the most consistent scandal throughout four decades of political campaign films. This is very telling of how the American people view politicians, and especially view their personal lives. The…

One of my greatest influences for pursuing an accounting major was the wide variety of career opportunities it could provide in the future. During my first two years of undergraduate studies I had absolutely no idea where I would fit in the business world or if I actually wanted to work in business in general. My accounting degree gave me the ability to pursue a degree that would be useful no matter where my potential career path would lead. Even if I did not want to obtain my CPA license, I…

Nixon finally agreed to release all of the sixty-four tapes and the transcripts of those tapes. The Last Days of the Nixon Era The White House Tapes tarnished Nixon 's image as a president, as a prominent leader in American history, and as the voice for the American people. Most of Nixon 's Administration was tried and sentenced to prison for their events in the Watergate scandal. The tapes revealed that Nixon and his administrations were at the forefront for all events that had taken place…

The scandal involving President Nixon and many of his top aids took place over a total of 4 years and became known as the Watergate Affair. It involved many people, break ins, cover ups, corruption at the highest level of the American political system, and a man who would stop at nothing to achieve re-election. Watergate it’s self tested the faith of the American people in the democratic system and in the end led to the President losing the American peoples trust and support. From the…

Alan J. Pakula and starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, was released in 1976 as a political film based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. It follows two journalists for The Washington Post in their investigation of the Watergate scandal. The film opens with the police discovering five burglars inside the Democratic National Committee located in the Watergate complex. The following morning, thinking that the story will be of little importance, The Washington Post assigns…

aim better at me that I will now manifest.” (3.2.89). This lie is deceitful as it gives the impression that Don John can be trusted, which is shown to be a false assumption later in the story. Also, though it may seem like a white lie, this deception makes later lies committed by Don John more deceitful; this is because people do not expect him to be the culprit of such elaborate stunts. In American history, Nixon commits a similar deception, also categorized as a lie in the interest of the…