EDITORIAL BLAME IT ON RAMPART KILLER'S CRACK BINGE COURTESY OF LAPD PAYOUT.THE muddiness of what became the LAPD's Rampart scandal has found its symbol in Roy Montes mon·tes n. Plural of mons. -- a criminal who won a handsome payout thanks to the transgressions of the Rampart Division's rogue cops. Were it not for the lucrative $149,000 settlement Montes got as a Rampart victim, he might not have gone on a crack cocaine binge that led to the killing of a man in Palmdale in 2004. Montes just lost his appeal of his murder conviction in that case. Perhaps, he should try suing the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. again for giving him the money that got him in trouble. That would be a fitting epitaph epitaph, strictly, an inscription on a tomb; by extension, a statement, usually in verse, commemorating the dead. The earliest such inscriptions are those found on Egyptian sarcophagi. to the Rampart scandal, instigated by a few bad cops that unfairly stained the entire Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . .
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