Assault under Color of Authority: Police Corruption as Norm in the LAPD Rampart Scandal and in Popular Film* * For help with comments, research and proofreading, thanks to: Michael Asimow, Marla Brettschneider, Fran Buntman, Susan Burgess, Howard Gillman, Milton Heumann, Mark Kann, Jinee Lokaneeta, Michael Tedesco, Jason Whitehead, two anonymous reviewers at the journal New Political Science and the members of the Law and Popular Culture Symposium held at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA in 2001