Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• 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