In the 1990s, Rafael Pérez was one of the dirtiest cops in the LAPD. He'd joined the force in 1989 after being discharged from the Marines and quickly made a name for himself as a bombastic undercover narcotics officer on the "buy team" of the Rampart Division west of downtown LA. Soon, He began selling their drugs himself instead of checking it into police evidence. And by 1998, he was dealing pounds of cocaine that he stole from both street dealers and police evidence rooms and was often seen