The department has not changed since the rampart and Rodney King days.
And, Denzel Washington and Woody Harrelson as corrupt characters in, respectively, Safe House and rampart.
In rampart, Woody Harrelson plays a corrupt, violent LAPD officer.
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story misstated the official release date of rampart.
I first discovered Hitchens from the other side of the rampart.
We went, and walked in silence to and fro along the rampart of the fortress.
Until he, Ercwlf, Descended into the fosse of the rampart, And was covered with sand.
It was certain death for any Indian to step from behind his rampart.
A pallid sun, low, gleaming just over a rampart of mountain-tops.
Others shot their horses and built a rampart of their bodies.
"earthen elevation around a place for fortification," sometimes also including parapets, 1580s, from Middle French rempart, rampart, from remparer "to fortify," from re- "again" (see re-) + emparer "fortify, take possession of," from Old Provençal amparer, from Vulgar Latin *anteparare "prepare," properly "to make preparations beforehand," from Latin ante- "before" (see ante) + parare "prepare" (see pare). With excrescent -t in French, perhaps by influence of boulevart (see boulevard).
