"We're not going to cause injury to ourselves in an investigation...there is a practice of protecting your own."

When I read this quote in a newspaper, it would have been easy for me to think that it came from the DLSE.

It came from an anonymous LAPD officer who worked on the Rampart Task Force.

But then I thought that if the DLSE had initiated certain in-house investigations, then that quotation would explain why things don't happen and just don't get off the ground. More on that later.