Police Career
Mack joined the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in 1988. He first worked as a patrol officer and then as an undercover narcotics officer. He next moved to a late shift in West Los Angeles. Mack began a relationship with Errolyn Romero, a nineteen-year-old ticket taker at the Baldwin Theatre, in 1990. Mack was awarded the LAPD Medal for Heroism in 1993 for shooting a drug dealer who threatened his partner, Rafael "Ray" Pérez, with a gun during an undercover drug operation.
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