Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums - in Popular Culture

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  • The 1988 film Colors, starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall, revolved around the LAPD C.R.A.S.H. unit.
  • The video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas depicts corrupt officers of the fictional "Los Santos Police Department" as members of the C.R.A.S.H. unit.
  • The cable channel FX's series The Shield centers on a corrupt police unit named the Strike Team, modeled after the Rampart Division's CRASH unit. One of the names originally considered for the show was "Rampart."
  • The exteriors of the Rampart Station were featured in the 1960s television show, Adam-12.
  • Rapper Xzibit mentions the "Crooked ass cops from the Rampart District" on the song "Multiply".
  • Rapper The Game mentions the Rampart scandal in a song called "Start from Scratch" from his album, The Documentary.
  • The films Cellular (2004) and Dirty (2005) were inspired by the Rampart scandal, while Training Day (2001), written before the incident, was modified to include elements from the scandal.
  • In the Special Features section on the DVD version of Cellular, there is a segment on the Rampart scandal called "Code of Silence."
  • Underground hip hop emcee Murs mentions his local C.R.A.S.H. unit in the song "The Night Before..." from his album, The End Of The Beginning.
  • In the PC game Police Quest IV the player has to solve the murder of the main character's best friend who is a C.R.A.S.H. officer.
  • Rapper and Rollin 60s Crip member Nipsey Hussle mentions the CRASH cops in many songs

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