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summary: Municipal police department that witnessed but failed to identify the emergence of crack cocaine in South Central L.A. in 1982.
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location: "Los Angeles, California"
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The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was the municipal law enforcement agency responsible for policing [[Los Angeles]] during the period when [[Ricky Ross|"Freeway" Ricky Ross]] built the city's first major [[Crack Cocaine]] distribution network.[^1] Street-level officers witnessed crack's emergence in South Central L.A. in 1982 but were unable to identify what they were seeing, and department leadership showed little interest in investigating.