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| “ | Meyerling is no rat. So what we gotta do is stick to the story. | „ |
| ~ Falco to Steele. |
Officer Carmen Falco is a supporting antagonist in the 2001 crime-drama film, L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve. He is a crooked police officer that is involved with Lieutenant James Alexander and his criminal activities.
He was portrayed by David Palffy.
Personality[]
Much like the other crooked cops, Falco was a corrupt, immature, juvenile, and intimidating police officer. He is shown to be demanding when he questions Steele about Wade's whereabouts. Sextram also describes him to be loyal to his fellow officers.
Biography[]
In the film, Falco is first seen attending at Meyerling's party, being entertained by the strippers.
After meeting with Steele's father at his store and heads back to the police station, Steele and Wade witness their follow police officers Alexander, Sextram, Meyerling, and Falco stealing items from the wholesale imports store and selling them to the pawnshop to get money for another party at Meyerling's place. Wade tries to report back to the police station about the burglary, but Steele stops him and is payoff by Meyerling for not ratting them out, allowing his silence to be bought.
Later at night, while Meyerling, Sextram, and Falco selling some of the stolen items, a homeless man sees them. Falco spots the homeless man and Sextram orders Meyerling to kill him but fails after he quickly flees from the scene. Assuming he didn't see anything, they leave and continue to sell the stolen items.
Back at the police department, Captain Ellsworth announces that there are officer misconduct and officers involved in criminal activities within the division. He also informs everyone that the department is cooperating with the Internal Affairs investigating officer misconduct and replacing as their division commander by Captain Payne. Alexander assigns Falco with Steele. Before getting in the car, Falco stops Steele and demands to reveal Wade's whereabouts. He also informs him about Meyerling getting arrested by the IA and stick to their original story if they get caught. They go to a pizza place and use their phone to call Kimberly. When Steele tries to talk to her and says that she didn't want to see him again, Steele questions Falco about Kimberly going back to the party last night, to which Falco replies that he was drunk.
While two officers entered the grocery store, two men attempted to robbed the store and killed two civilians, starting a shootout with the officers. Steele and Falco just in time and fires at the robbers. One of them shoots Falco's left ear. The officers manage to kill the robbers in the process.
Realizing that Sextram killed Kimberly, Steele is filled with anger and decides to confront the crooked cops with Wade, taking matters into their own hands once and for all. Arriving at the pawnshop and goes to the back office, Steele and Wade confront the crooked officers in a standoff. While preparing to fight off the crooked cops, Detective Jack Kirby arrives and tries to arrest Steele and Wade and reveals that he killed Steele's father. While doing so, he shot and killed by Wade. impress with Wade's shot and stating that he never liked Kirby, Alexander tries to convince Steele and Wade from shooting him, but they refused and have a shootout with them. Falco is killed by Steele during the shootout.