Attorneys who represent the family of a 92-year-old woman who was shot to death in her home by Atlanta police on Nov. 21, 2006, in an illegal drug raid at the wrong residence said the city may have agreed to a $4.9 million settlement because it feared taking the case to a jury would expose a “culture of corruption” at the Atlanta Police Department and a quota system that encouraged false arrests and fabricated search warrants.
The shooting death of Kathryn Johnston and the planting of illegal drugs in her home by members of the Atlanta police department’s narcotics squad to justify her slaying was the result of a widespread pattern of corruption within not only the narcotics unit, but other divisions of the Atlanta Police Department, attorneys representing Johnston’s estate said.
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