"The former Los Angeles detective Victor Mackey who was the head of the controversial Strike Team Scandal that nearly brought down the LAPD to brink of ruin in 2006 has been found dead at his home outside Boston in what appeared to be a shootout between Mackey and members of the Armenian Mob. His body was found by a housekeeper who reported to the Californian authorities early Tuesday. Victor Mackey who was a subject to a lengthy internal investigation of corruption, bribery, extortion, excessive force..."
Even in death, Vic Mackey left a trail of destruction in his 's for sure. Matt thought to himself as he took a moment to let it all sink in upon hearing the news report on the radio. He had just joined the force from the Marine Corps was there the night everything unraveled 16 years ago. He didn't know Mackey personally but from the impression he got from was he was a bit of ass and the alpha male of the pack. He just didn't know how corrupt Mackey was and let me tell you, he really left a mess behind when he took the immunity deal the FBI offered to everything he did, including the murder of a fellow cop named Terry Crowley. He spent three years there before taking up a gig at private security in Boston away from the 1 million bounty on his head by the Cartel and the Armenian crime syndicate.
Captain Claudette Wyms was forced to step down when her disbandment of the Strike Team resulted in gang related crimes increased which didn't sit well with her superiors and she was made the poster girl for failed policing due to the numerous lawsuits and controversy surrounding the Barn despite her promise of keeping it corrupt free. She died in a hospital surrounded by her family having lived with a long term illness that was starting to effect her work at the age of fifty six.
Her old partner Dutch Wagenbach declined the offer of being captain, stating that he wasn't cut out for politics. He works at Hollywood District and has two kids with his wife who works as a Defense Attorney.
Officer Julian Lowe was killed in the line of duty during a bust at a drug house. He was forty four years old.
The then Officer Dani Sofén now Detective was working out of the West LA PD, being a single mother to her son Lee whose father was Vic Mackey. When the news of Mackey's crimes was known to the public, She requested his paternal rights to be terminated and after quick examination of his record, the judge agreed to it as well as his other family that went into witness protection thanks to his ex wife being an informant for the FBI.
Agent Olivia Murray, the FBI Agent who broke the deal with Mackey was fired from the Bureau when someone leaked information about her coverup of her brother's involvement in the Pezuela Cartel. Last he heard of her was that she's working as a private investigator in Atlanta.
Detective Ronnie Gardocki who was part of the Strike Team, ended up taking the fall and was now serving life sentence in insolation, away from the General Population.
Shane Vendrell who ended up on run when a local gangbanger named him as the man who ordered the hit on Ronnie, ended up killing himself and his entire family on the day the police made the bust at his family home.
Steve Billings decided not to go through the lawsuit and decided to transfer from the Barn to Metropolitian Precinct when the Barn was closed indefinitely.
Officer Tina Hanlon was promoted to Sergeant few years later and is still working in Farmington.
David Aceveda was still heavily involved in politics and is currently planning a run as a Lieutenant Governor.
The Barn was sieged by FBI themselves due to the large amount of corruption and was promptly shut down.
All in all, it was a scandal that rivaled the Rampart Controversy which LAPD hadn't recovered since. The tiny silver lining though was that it took place before the age of Social Media. Vic Mackey wouldn't even last in today political climate.
Nietsizch once said Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you and that's what happened to Vic Mackey. He will forever be remembered as a cautionary tale of a cop who became everything he fought against in the name of while justifying his actions as righteous.