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Entertainment & Sports

Feb. 28, 2003

L.A.'s Never-Ending Cop Scandals Are Transmuted Into Celluloid Gold

Column By Garry Abrams - If a latter-day Rip Van Winkle dared to go to sleep for 20 years in Los Angeles, he might wake up to find that the LAPD is still writing its final report on the Rampart scandal and that aging rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight is still being run in and out of jail in the world's longest parole violation case.

        Column
        
        By Garry Abrams
        
        If a latter-day Rip Van Winkle dared to go to sleep for 20 years in Los Angeles, he might wake up to find that the LAPD is still writing its final report on the Rampart scan...

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