DIRTY NARC FLICK TRAINED OFFICERS

One of John Neily's first orders to his 25-member internal affairs team was
to watch the hit movie Training Day. Training Day, which won an Oscar for
Denzel Washington's portrayal of a Los Angeles drug cop gone bad, was made
"required" viewing by Neily, the RCMP chief superintendent in charge of the
probe into alleged wrongdoing by Toronto drug cops.

He even flew to Los Angeles in 2002 and met with LAPD brass.

Since Wednesday's arrests, Neily has refused to answer questions about the
probe and has not returned calls.

The LAPD's Rampart Division anti-gang squad scandal is perhaps the most
notorious corruption case in America. More than a dozen cops were jailed,
about 100 criminal cases overturned, hundreds more were tainted and 30
officers have either quit, retired or been fired.

City lawyers say Rampart will surpass $200 million in legal costs and
settlements.

The scandal centred on the elite Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums
(CRASH), an undercover squad created to smash Rampart's gang and drug
problem.

Given autonomy and wide discretion, CRASH monitored gangs, their friends and
families. The squad halved street crime, but crashed itself in 1998 when
veteran cop Rafael Perez, 32, admitted to perjury, fabrication of evidence
and stealing drugs, guns and cash.

Perez testified how he and his partner took 18th Street Gang member
Francisco Ovando, 19, into a vacant apartment, shot him four times and
planted a gun on him.

He said CRASH officers stole drugs and cash, planted guns and dope and did
illegal searches and arrests.

"(Criminals) are out there committing murders, and then they intimidate the
witnesses so (they) don't show up in court. So they're getting away with
murder every day ... when I planted a case on someone, did I feel bad? Not
once. I felt good. I felt I'm taking this guy off the streets."