Starlight tours
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Starlight tours is a name for the non sanctioned police practice of picking up individuals in their cruisers, mostly homeless, minorities, drug addicts, or other such marginalized people, and taking them outside of town where they would be beaten and/or abandoned on the side of the road. In certain regions in Canada, starlight tours are a frequent occurrence. Following the case of the 1990 death of Neil Stonechild - allegedly a result of a starlight tour - the practice is becoming a major national issue in Canada.
A starlight tour is notably depicted in the Sylvester Stallone film First Blood. The Nick Nolte film Mulholland Falls, a story of a Los Angeles police detective and his partners, is named for the protagonists' particular style of starlight tours. To wit, the detectives will approach a member of organized crime who has recently arrived in town and make what appears at first to be merely a harassment arrest. However, instead of taking the man to a police station, they take him into the countryside to a large cliff, which they euphemistically call "Mulholland Falls", where the unfortunate is thrown to his death.
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