station. we were going to work behind closed doors. we were going to work after hours. we would never leave a paper trail of what we were doing. they even gave lazarus a code name. number 5. and contrary to police procedure, they decided not to tell lapd headquaters that their new suspect was a fellow detective. you re doing that to protect her or your investigation from her? dual purpose. it would protect the integrity of the investigation and if she was not involved, then nobody would ever know about it. four cops skirted department rules to investigate one of their own. it was a difficult phase of our careers. she was one of us. she worked our unit. worked side by side with the people around us. but he and his three fellow detectives didn t waiver. they methodically built a case by exhaustively reviewing the