STRESS Unit

STRESS Unit
1973: Police resort to brute force
With guns at the ready, a uniformed police backup to the STRESS decoy unit in 1973 questions men in a car. The STRESS unit was branded a disgrace and disbanded, but not before 17 civilians were shot and killed by officers in four years.


William Hart and Coleman Young

Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn killed

Malice Green

Eugene Brown killed three or more unarmed people

David Krupinsky killed

Errol Shaw, Sr.

STRESS used plainclothes squad members as decoys to lure muggers