The Real Rampart Story: A boiling cauldron of lies, deception and distortion--Or Utter Nonsense?


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Hollywood has made a movie about one of the worst police scandals in U.S. history, a movie about bad cops doing bad things in the 1990s. Well, maybe it's about the Rampart scandal. According to many moviegoers, they don't think the Rampart scandal, although used as a "backdrop," has much to do with what goes on in the movie.

Perhaps it's just as well. After all, only a few cops in Los Angeles's Rampart Division were convicted of corruption way back then, and today Rampart cops are known as honest and tough.

After a February opening, the reviews are mixed. Some people hate the movie, saying it makes no sense, has no point, and has nothing to do with the Rampart scandal. Others say it is a spectacular movie with some of the best acting they've ever seen.

I wonder, however, Did this movie really have to be made?

Actor Woody Harrelson's performance is portrayed as "ferocious." Harrelson is a formidable actor and movie critics are praising him to the Hollywood Hills. Based on his performance and several disconnected scenes, some critics are calling it an "art" film. I'm not sure that's a good thing. That moniker may be a box office kiss of death. I mean, how many shoot-'um-ups are called art films?

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A Regular Column by
Alex M. Salazar

Private Detective, Former LAPD Undercover Officer


Stress On The Police Family

A police officer's mental health affects their marriage, home life, children and close relationships.

Your home environment has a critical effect on how you will perform your job. If there is stress in the home, it doesn't get left at home. You take it with you to work. Stress at home combined with stress at work can have dire consequences on the most emotionally stable person, causing anger and aggressiveness.

Stress causes mistakes on the job where there is no room for mistakes. When you are dealing with life and death everyday, you cannot afford to be distracted by a tense family life.

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 How Pedophiles
 Groom Our Children
 --And Us!
       
Not only do pedophiles groom children so they can have sex with them, they groom their parents to make them think their children are safe with them.

Pedophiles groom police officers, judges, paramedics, school teachers, caregivers...

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Sex Addiction in Police Officers

Excerpt:

"All I wanted to do was get screwed up and loaded. When my dick was hard, I didn't give a damn. I fucked anyone, anytime, anyplace and I gave no thought to sexually transmitted diseases."

This informative, shocking, groundbreaking report will be presented in our July edition of Renegade PoPo. Written by one of our journalists, we are waiting for it to be published first in a book on law enforcement stress.

Excerpt:

"Before the term 'sex addiction' was coined, people who compulsively switched sexual partners were often condemned as promiscuous, immoral, oversexed, aberrant and whorish. Sometimes they were admiringly called rakish, bawdy, ribald, raunchy and profligate, as if irresponsible and reckless behavior was condoned as just boys sowing their wild oats."

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords: A Good Friend to Police Officers, But Did We Let Her Down?

U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head on January 8, 2011, in Tucson, AZ, and now she has given up her job, as she doesn't feel that she can carry out her duties.

That is a shame. She is a great supporter of police officers, as well as our military personnel. But did the government let her down? Did we? Where was her security? The answers are shocking.

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When I Looked Into the Eyes of a 9/11 Terrorist, He Wanted To Kill Me

On March 3, 2001, I sat down at a table in front of a coffee kiosk at the Phoenix airport and opened up my laptop. As I began work, I looked up and right across from me sat two Middle Eastern men. They were only about 15 to 20 feet away, so I got a good look at them.

What I felt at the moment one of the men and I locked eyes on each other was nothing I'd experienced before. I felt that not only did he hate me, but he wanted to rip me apart. That's a shockingly primitive gut reaction, one I couldn't ignore.

Cops know what I'm talking about. They have come fact-to-face with people they know would kill them in an instant if they could. They have stared into the eyes of a demon.

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CopShock is PTSD: the Secret Cop Killer

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) kills more cops every year than criminals. More cops die by their own hand as a result of PTSD and psychological stress then are killed in the line of duty.

       CopShock, by Allen R. Kates

"As police officers, we have a very real problem," says LAPD Detective (Ret.) Bill Martin. "We don't recognize how what we see, hear, smell, taste and feel affects us on a daily basis. Our responses to violence are so subtle and long-term that we do not realize what is happening to us until we begin to lose what is most important in our lives: our families, friends, health, spirituality, honor, commitment, and sense of self-worth."

He says, "For most of my police years, I was addicted to alcohol and prescription drugs. I often had suicidal thoughts and once tried to kill myself. I didn't realize that my exposure to frequent trauma was causing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder."

Over a 33-year career, Detective Martin experienced thousands of shootings, homicides, suicides and natural deaths. Often he felt fear, helplessness and despair. Thinking his feelings were abnormal, he repressed them, pushing them down, not realizing that his feelings were normal. He did not realize that his feelings were normal. He did not realize that the situations he found himself in were abnormal. As a result of ignoring his emotions, he developed PTSD, which is often considered the most severe form of traumatic stress reaction.

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