A disgraced Los Angeles police officer who blew the whistle on a widespread corruption scandal will be sentenced today for stealing cocaine from an evidence room. Rafael Perez faces a five-year prison sentence under an immunity deal covering other crimes he has admitted to investigators. After his arrest in 1998 in the cocaine case, Perez detailed alleged misconduct among his fellow officers, including beatings and shootings of innocent people. So far, the scandal has resulted in twenty officers being relieved of duty. Some forty tainted convictions have been overturned. Several hundred more cases are under review. In just a few minutes, we’ll be spending the show looking at the LAPD scandal, as well as the Pelican Bay riot.