The Camden City Council agreed Tuesday to pay $3.5 million to settle claims by 88 criminal defendants that they were wrongly charged or convicted due to police misconduct.
Criminal charges were brought in 2010 against five Camden police officers, members of a special patrol unit, who were accused of stealing money and drugs during illegal searches and conspiring to deprive people of their due process rights by planting drugs and threatening arrest based on the planted drugs if they did not cooperate.
