In the affidavit, Dickson said that members of the Task Force (including Finley) forged payroll documents, and food receipts, and claimed that at least one officer pocketed money meant for a Confidential Informant.

[9] Cooper struck on the idea of using an internet-distributed reality TV format program called "KopBusters" that would muckrake abuses of drug enforcement organizations.

In a typical KopBusters sting operation, Cooper and his associates would place fake drug evidence and cash and call the police to report the "suspicious" materials.

[10] Cooper set up a sting with no real evidence to trick Odessa, Texas police into raiding a fake marijuana hothouse and published the video of the event publicly via KopBusters.

According to the article (and other outlets), Raymond Madden hired Barry Cooper to help him with what he believed was a wrongful conviction by the Odessa Police Department against his daughter, Yolanda (detailed below).

[11] The sting operation also helped to free Yolanda Madden, a mother of two sentenced to 8 years in prison for drug possession, which she alleged was planted by a police informant.

In July 2010, Junnell accepted Madden's plea of guilty to her original charge of Possession of Methamphetamine and sentenced her to time served and 3 years of supervised release.

Other consequences included several arrests, Child Protective Services investigations of Cooper's custody of his son, and a visit by the Texas Rangers, over the Odessa charge, which was later dropped.

[1] Cooper remains active in the anti-drug-war movement via his website, which provides advice, video materials, and expert witness services to recreational drug users.

[17] The docuseries explores Cooper’s career in law enforcement, his decision to turn against the Drug War, and his activism in exposing police corruption and wrongful arrests.

In an interview with the Sundance Institute, showrunners Ngo and Williams-Weir described the project as an effort to shed light on police misconduct, wrongful arrests, and the flaws in the US government's war on drugs.