Watchdogs say the CPD unit most closely resembling the unit in Memphis was disbanded after an investigation led to charges and prison sentences.
, which included the officers behind the deadly beating of Tyre Nichols, was disbanded over the weekend after video of the attack was released.
As protests took place across the U.S., the Memphis Police Department announced Saturday that the SCORPION unit - consisting of 40 officers and launched in 2021 to target violent crime - would be disbanded. One so-called"elite" unit that resembled Memphis' SCORPION unit was the Special Operations Section Unit, which was disbanded in October 2007.
Finnigan was also later charged with plotting to have another officer killed, because he believed the officer was cooperating with the investigation of the SOS unit.In September 2007, three ither members of the SOS unit were stripped of their badges and assigned to desk work after surveillance camera video at a bar contradicted officers' version of a search and arrests there.
In 2013, University of Illinois at Chicago professors Dick Simpson and John Hagedorn traced police misconduct over 50 years and found more than 300 officers in that time had been convicted of serious crimes, a third of those for illegal drug dealing, weapons sales, and gang activity.
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