Fortunately, over the last decade, specialized units that engaged in unlawful activity have increasingly faced justice for their crimes. In Baltimore, eight officers of the GTTF unit were convicted of extortion, racketeering, robbery, and overtime fraud, which resulted in sentences that, when combined, added up to a total of 112 years, as reported by NBC News.
To Ray Kelly of the No Boundaries Coalition advocacy group, such an outcome was a long time coming. He told The Washington Post, “The only thing that is surprising to me with these trials are the actual guilty pleas and that officers are going to prison. For years we have talked about and tried to identify the levels of corruption within the BPD, and now our concerns are, sadly, being validated.”
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After a federal investigation, several members of the SOS unit in Chicago also pled guilty to crimes such as illegally searching both suspects and innocent victims alike, often to steal money or drugs from them. Most of the officers faced relatively minor sentences, including a few years of probation or incarceration of up to a year and a $100,000 fine, says CBS News. On the other hand, the leader of the group, Jerome Finnigan, was given much harsher punishment. In 2011, the commanding officer pled guilty to attempting to arrange a hit on someone he suspected was informing on the SOS to federal investigators. He received a 12-year prison sentence (per CBS News).
