When Memphis police disbanded its notorious street team after officers beat a man to death in January 2023, then-West Palm Beach Police Department Chief Frank Adderley went on national television to defend a similar unit he created.
“We’re not getting calls in our city to disband it. I think if you go to some of these community meetings, they want more of them. They don’t want less,” Adderley told ABC News about West Palm’s Gang & Habitual Offender Suppression Team, or GHOST.
But over a year later, Adderley quietly dissolved GHOST after officers led a high-speed chase into Boynton Beach that killed a pregnant woman and her mother on July 30, 2024. Instead of stopping to help, the seven officers silently turned around and told nobody what happened, prosecutors said…