The band performs at a variety of community events, including parades, police memorial services and funerals.
Dr. Abouhassan was left with a concussion, broken nose, bruised ribs, and a detached retina, requiring emergency surgery.
In the first case, in 1993, Van Buskirk and another officer apprehended a man sleeping in his car and beat him severely.
In the second, in 1994, Van Buskirk, working as a breathalyzer technician, roughhandled a man who alleged wrongful arrest, dislocating his shoulder.
In the fourth instance, in 1994, Van Buskirk was accused, along with other officers, of beating three handcuffed men while taunting them with racial slurs.
[16] In 1998 Van Buskirk plead guilty to discreditable conduct and neglect of duty, for accompanying two topless Michigan women into a hotel room with a fellow officer, and telling headquarters they were on call for the ensuing five hours.
[16] Investigators also revealed other officers involved in the Abouhassan case had track records of assault and misconduct.
Al Pizzicaroli, who worked with the police department's professional standards branch responsible for investigating the case, had previously in 1991 been witnessed assaulting a man with other officers.
Inspector Randy Gould, named as a criminal investigator in the Abouhassan case, was found by an appeal court in 2002 to have beaten a confession out of a man convicted of manslaughter, in the presence of another officer.
Mike LaPorte, a former Police Union executive, was the officer who filed the assault charges against Dr. Abouhassan in 2010.
[16] In the midst of the lawsuit launched by Dr. Abouhassan against the police, then-chief Gary Smith announced an early retirement, to be replaced by Al Frederick.
[17] Van Buskirk was ultimately sentenced to 5 months in jail after pleading guilty to assault causing bodily harm.
[18] In 2017, a court decision revealed that the Windsor Police Service had lost twenty-five thousand dollars worth of cocaine from their evidence vault in 2013.
[19] In March 2018, two unnamed Windsor Police officers shot and killed 33 year-old Matthew Mahoney, a man experiencing mental health crisis and wielding a knife in a McDonalds.
Mahoney's brother said he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and other health issues, and often "called the police to ask for help but had trouble expressing himself."