On January 14, 1999, two officers from the Street Crimes Unit fired eight shots at rapper Russell "Ol' Dirty Bastard" Jones, a member of the multiplatinum group Wu-Tang Clan.
Four plainclothes New York City officers shot at Diallo 41 times in the vestibule of his apartment complex after mistakenly believing he was drawing a firearm.
While the officers were acquitted on the charges of murder, New York City did pay out $3 million in a civil suit brought forward by Amadou's mother, Kadijatou Diallo.
It employed innovative methods, including possibly the earliest coordinated sting operations to elicit potential muggers.
According to Criminal Justice Today: "The SCU disguised officers as potential mugging victims and put them in areas where they were most likely to be attacked.