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b'How does a good cop turn bad? For Ruben Palomares, a former corrupt LAPD Rampart division officer, the process was slow. He went from receiving LAPD\\u2019s highest honor to becoming one of the most corrupt cops in US history.\\nOfficer Palomares\\u2019 story begins with his first undercover assignment. In the late 1980s there was this show called 21 Jump Street. Johnny Depp starred in it. It was about undercover cops, who pretended to be students, in order to bust drug dealers in schools.\\nBut did you know that back in the 1994, the Los Angeles police department juvenile narcotics unit actually recruited young officers to infiltrate classrooms in order to investigate drug dealers? They couldn\\u2019t just get any cop to fill this undercover role. They needed a fresh face who could blend in with the students. So, they approached officer Ruben Palomares.\\nIn 1995, Ruben Palomares got transferred to LAPD\\u2019s Rampart Division where he continued to work undercover cases. He was specifically assigned to the anti-gang unit called CRASH. CRASH is an acronym for the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums. This is when Ruben\\u2019s fate will be decided.\\n-----BURNER PHONE PODCAST-----\\nYou can find Burner Phone Podcast on Apple Podcast and Twitter.\\n-----MUSIC-----\\nTheme Music composed by Joe Basile from The Chicken Music and Sound Design. Find out more about Joe and The Chicken at www.thechicken.net\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'