Five Black women filed a federal lawsuit on Friday accusing several officers from a controversial Kansas police department of engaging in unethical, violent and abusive behavior targeting the Black community. The accused officers include a former detective who has numerous complaints against him.

The women, whom HuffPost has chosen not to name, have accused the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City of enabling officers of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department as they engaged in exploitative behavior for years while on the job, including stalking, assaulting and raping Kansas City residents.

The defendants listed in the suit include former police chiefs Thomas Dailey, James Swafford and Ronald Miller; and detectives Roger Golubski, Terry Zeigler, Michael Kill, Clayton Bye and Dennis Ware.

The suit likens the police departments and city/county governments efforts to torment and intimidate Black citizens to the Jim Crow era of the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, when racist laws upheld white supremacy and enforced segregation.

With government authority, a plague of State agents used their badges as licenses to stalk, assault, beat, rape, harass, frame, and threaten Black citizens in protected police hunting grounds, according to the 138-page lawsuit.

The suit describes the officers as dirty cops who used their badges to exploit Black women and used government-sanctioned power and terrorism to silence and intimidate the plaintiffs.

The suit describes multiple encounters with Golubski, a former homicide detective in the KCKPD who retired in 2010. Golubski, now 70, has made headlines in the last few years as misconduct accusations against him, spanning from the 1990s to the 2000s, have surfaced.

All but one of the five plaintiffs have accused Golubski of raping them.