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The NW Raiders was one of many Police Crime Units in the United States that focused primarily on Crack Cocaine. ==History== The initial Raider Unit was a temporary unit formed by Sgt George Hurt of the Fort Lauderdale Police Dept in 1983. The Unit, known as Hurts Raiders, was staffed by road patrol officers who focused on the street sales of heroin and cocaine. This is incorrect, the name was given to the unit by the community. As they stormed into the homes and neighborhoods with their vans and cars, it became easy for the drug users and drug dealers to identify this group as the "Raiders". They concentrated their investigations in District 2, which is located in the NW (Northwest) section of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida. The unit was then disbanded after a 2-month period and street level investigations were left to patrol. From 1983 to 1985, FLPD (Fort Lauderdale Police Department) patrol officers initiated all the street level investigations as part of their assignments, which included search warrants. There were four officers handling all street level drug activity during this period. Officer Keith Abrahamsen, Ron Hood, Marion Sims and Rick Kosick. At the end of 1984, Abrahamsen and Hood were reassigned to other areas of the department, which left the bulk of the investigations to Officers Sims and Kosick. With an epidemic Crack Cocaine problem hitting the streets, the two patrol officers could not handle all the investigations. Their drug investigations were in addition to their normal patrol activities on midnight shift. With public outcry connected with street sales and the violence that goes along with it, Fort Lauderdale then Police Chief Ron Cochran formed the NW Raiders which he selected patrol officers who worked the NW Area of Fort Lauderdale. Formed in 1985, the Unit "NW RAIDERS" consisted of Five (5) Detectives and One (1)Sgt. The Detectives were Ed Evarts, Bill Lumm, Sandy Memrick, Scott Russell, Eddie Robinson and Sgt Donald Muller. Detective Abrahamsen joined the Unit in 1986 when Detective Memrick was reassigned. During the first two years of the unit forming, 1,100 arrests were made, 172 search warrants were executed and 116 vehicles were seized. Investigations included the use of wiretaps, reverse stings, controlled buys and stake outs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「NW Raiders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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