The Cop Who Turned Into A Gangster - Rafael Perez 

Everyone knows this is who Denzel portrayed in Training Day, but it's also who officer Tenpenny from GTA San Andreas was based on too.

Dude looking like a straight up villian in every picture

this dude is probably what half of NWA's songs are about

officer Tenpenny from San Andreas wildin'

Fun fact: in the movie TRAINING DAY denzel Washington's license plate is actually Rafael perez initials and badge number. 🤯🤯🤯🤯

This is not a cop turned gangster, this is a gangster who choose to be a cop.

"You wanna go jail or you wanna go home?" - Alonzo Harris

When you realize "Training Day" was based on this guy.

5 years for lying & attempt murder?! Bruh, I can get more time for selling zip of weed.

The fact this guy wasn't sentenced to life in prison is incredible

This is who Denzel studied for his role in Training Day

so this is why every bad cop in the movies is named "Perez" lol

Crazy he did less time than the people he convicted

He ain't no cop turned gangster he's a Banger wearing a uniform to cover his tracks. Now he's a driver for some elite actors. While all his buddies are dead.

*Shoots unarmed man in the back while he's running away.* Police: Here is a literal medal.

I’m surprised Netflix hasn’t made this a series yet.

The cop that turned into a gangster, then turned into a rat 🐀!

"it's not what u know, it's what u can prove"

He wasn't bullshittin' when he said "I'm puttin' cases on all you bitches!" Damn! Denzel had this guy down with the goatee and fade wow!

"One who goes after monsters must make sure he does not become a monster himself."

The Biggie & 2pac story can LEGIT be around 30 movies in order to tell the whole tale. It's CRAZY how all these incidents link together.

My father wasn’t one of the 9 prosecuted but he was one of the 24 that left the department. I was 8 years old in 99 but remember a lot in these dark times. My father worked for the department from 91-99. Perez shattered the careers of decorated officers who really were trying to make Los Angeles safer. My father was also the recipient of the Medal of Valor which is the highest decoration given for bravery when he saved his partner from a shooting in an apartment complex in Rampart (she survived). His partner was shot a few times by a suspect armed with a fully automatic assault rifle. I’m not saying all cops aren’t corrupt because clearly 9 officers were found guilty of crimes BUT Perez went on and lied about over 50 other officers. Imagine ruining the lives of so many people only to save your own skin for things they didn’t even do. This guy was a walking embarrassment and the fact that the “system” gave him immunity is beyond me. My father almost lost our home after being suspended for over a year without pay for crimes he did not commit. The city of LA just wanted all of this to go away so they threw him under the bus before they can even validate anything Perez said was true. Feds would monitor his accounts and follow my m around to see how we were living. Mind you, we still live in the same house since 1993 in Inglewood, CA. My old man drove a beat up single cab Toyota truck during all of this and my mom in beat up Honda. We never had expensive cars or even traveled. My father and his partner were both asked to come back after they realized everything was a lie and till this day i am glad he never went back. It was in that moment i knew i never wanted to follow his footsteps and become a police officer which is what i wanted to be at such a young age. The city and department believed criminals before decorated officers. Happy to say my father and i just celebrated his 54th birthday and he still keeps in contact with his former partner who also went on to get a better career outside of the department. It’s easy to make jokes about police officers who weren’t involved but until you lived the worst of times because of lies, it’s not funny. I’m proud of what my old for who he is and I’m even happier knowing he hasn’t had to put his life on the line for a crap department who didn’t have his back when he needed them the most. Just thought I’d share a personal experience since this video popped up on my recommendations. Take care guys.

It amazes me that he lived through all his treachery against very bad individuals.

"See you around like a donut Carl" classic bars...

when suge in this you know its bad

Sounds like Training Day's to me

"That's why I never shake his hand, he don't respect nada"

Felt like a Training Day Audiobook.

He's not the first and certainly he's not the last.unfortunately.

So was the movie “Training Day” based on this dude life?

He was rejected multiple times during the background check due to his gang member ties; however, when he dated Bernard Parks niece, he got pushed through...

He was just, The Gangster Who Wore A Cop's Uniform...💯💯

Javier Ovando; Snoop Dogg in Training Day.

Denzel is hands down my favorite actor.

You did a good job presenting Rafael Perez story.

*_He got sucked into that California gang life.. Being born n raised here it’s really hard to not get sucked into it.. Especially in Los!! So I’m not surprised at all.._*

Sooo all that crime he committed and only did 5 years in total smh

GTA SA Tenpenny in real life

Here's the kicker, I'm 100% sure things like this is still going on in LA today.

This is the former police officer that the movie Training Day with Denzel Washington was based on.Denzel did a hell of a job.

My cellie was Allan Lobos,crash unit set him up,he was the first victim to receive a settlement from LAPD,18ST GANGMEMBER,CONVICTED OF MURDER,STILL SERVING A LIFE SENTENCE. GOOD TIMING ON SHOWING ONE OF THOSE SNAKES 🐍 WITH A BADGE

This dude had the cop face his whole life

I remember Perez. He and I worked Patrol together, though I don't ever recall working with him on the same car. When Sgt. Jack Hoar ran CRASH, he seemed ok. Sgt. Hoar wouldn't have kept him around if he wasn't. However, when Jack left Perez turned dark and the CRASH unit became very insular and clannish. My guess is Perez didn't become a gangster, he always was one. When no one was watching him it just came out.

So basically he was Denzel in Training Day. The guy he shot and left a paraplegic, served over 2.5 years in prison, unjustly, and they sent his offender to jail for less than 2 years. A travesty of justice. Javier Ovando deserved all of the 15 million settlement, and more, for getting shot by corrupt cops then serving 2.5 years in prison on a false conviction, after being confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, and for the malfeasance of the legal system that assisted in getting him framed. Perez should have done at least 5-7 years hard time. He got off too easy. The cooperation with law enforcement should only have insulated him from a life sentence.

Came to L.A. got turned out by the culture. And turnt up happens all the time

BASICALLY HIS GREED CAUGHT UP TO HIM .

He didn’t spiral down, he rose from the dirt 💯

Last time I checked there's quite a few gangsters walking around while being an "officer of the law".

I know someone that got more time for growing weed.

So he ratted out his entire squad to save his own ass WHAT A HERO

Snitches don't get stitches, they get parole and short sentances

Amazing how the largest payout in LA went to a Hispanic guy.

"We can crap on you from such a height, you'll think god himself has crapped on you" - Officer Tenpenny.

Keep up the good work califaces. I can't wait for more videos.

What makes stuff like this even more insidious is the perspective. These guys see the pain, misery, violence, and destruction drugs do to families, communities, and society as a whole to people beyond the users and traffickers and dealers. Just look at the burden financially that it takes to police, prosecute, imprison, rehab, and cover medical of users and then the cost of those ancillary crimes on the victims. Its nuts.

He was never a cop at heart. Eventually showed his true colors.

If I could maake 94 today I would have told Big and PaC about the Rampart Scandal. _The Game_

Basically he's a SNITCH😶

People gotta understand, humans like him go into the game knowing they’re going to give everybody up as a last resort if they ever get caught themselves.. If the information provided if juicy enough they’ll get a slap on the wrist for a mountain of destruction that they have caused.

Wow love this doc, very well made

“the sheild” was initially called “rampart” and they based so many storylines on the rampart division that the lapd threatened to sue if anyone ever even said “lapd” on screen...

This is the injustice the public now speak of, but some people are blind to this.

Sadly this is happening today all over the world

This deserves to be a gangster-film.

Officer Tenpenny? That you?

His partner has been insinuated in BIGGIES murder. Look it up

"Remember that fool on a wheelchair, how you think he got there?" Training Day - Final Battle Scene.

Man,this should be made into a movie.Truth is stranger than fiction.NUFF SAID.

Wow cops get no time even when fully guilty. Dude paralyzed someone smfh

Also, to those saying this was "training day" More directly, the movie crash. Anyone remember the part where Don Cheadle investigates a cop on cop shooting, white cop vs black cop? That happened.... .... the black cop was part of Perez' crew.... got into a road rage with the white cop... White cop was an undercover narc... black cop, driving faith evans' car, starts throwing gang signs, and flashes a gun.... white cop shoots him.... ..... Perez went and checked out coke from evidence, and used the white cops name (david lyga)..... ..... thats the case that got him caught... that was the coke he stole that led to his downfall. The bigger story was crazy

Thank you for having them to monitor the police officers

So this is where Training Day was inspired from.

Anyone notice the C.R.A.S.H. Thing is in GTA San Andreas?!

4500 pages? That guy sure spilled the beans lol snitched hardcore!

If he had never stolen from the police, he would be collecting a pension as a kingpin.

I feel like a good portion of this man's life was some of the inspiration behind Denzel Washington's character in Training Day.

“We’ll be seeing you around CJ”

Im thinking his life was based on that denzel Washington movie training day

Great doco, thankyou.

Chose to live a quiet life.... 2020: Well helloooooo there!

this is where training day script writers got there ispiration from,..

Today's your Training Day Officer Perez, David Mack was his Alonzo, turned him out...

The back ground music transformed me into a gangster !

First thing I thought: Oh that's Officer Tenpenny and that guy from Training Day. So accurate.

Why didn't Officer Ricky aka Rapping Rick Ross steal this man's life instead of Freeway's?

This hasn’t covered even half of what that man did. And the movie “Training Day” starring Denzel Washington was inspired by Perez

Ding, ding, ding, ding good answer carl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. The crash theme started playing in my mind lol

I don’t understand why snitches always get so much leniency.

This whole dudes situation shows to prove it doesnt matter where you come from its about what youre made of. I met real dudes from the suburbs who go harder then lames who came out of the worst part of the city.

When I was 17 years old i knew the worse person to meet is a bad or evil cop, I prayed to God that I would not meet one of those, all the police officers I've met in life that stops me were like angels.

I guess you could say the guy had his Smiles And Cries...

Old but gold.

People like R.A.P usually get tired of their life which makes them depressed and self sabotage themselfs this is clearly one example.

The real life Alonzo played by Denzel Washington on Training Day.

I love your voice. It’s very soothing.

I can't believe he's not still in prison I cant believe none of his transcripts stuck when he snitched on his fellow law breakers.

"It's not what you KNOW, it's what you can PROVE ! "

I've been saying this for year's. I know cops in my city that cheat on their wives. If you cheat on your wife what else are you doing?? A cheater is a liar, cheater/thief....

While watching this all I got was Denzel Washington’s “Alonzo Harris” vibes from Training day searched it and sure enough he was loosely based off Rafael Perez. Knew it!!! 😭😭

The bad guy was trying to catch himself. 😂