Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brotherhood of the Strong
per  and . The interconnectedness of the "groups" in the article are based upon a single unreliable source, a Southern Poverty Law Center article from 2000. "The Brotherhood of the Strong" appears to have been a local scandal in 2000 involving three or four deputies of the Multnomah County Sheriff's Officehttp://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nsEjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BdEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4582%2C2858617 that may have been investigated by the FBI.http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-1513-noelles_legal_leftovers.html "The Brotherhood" appears to have been a different local scandal in 1999 rumored to involve employees at Indiana's Putnamville Correctional Facility that was investigatedhttp://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OMU_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=zFcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2574%2C6231168. The SPLC is the only source I can find that suggests there is a "Brotherhood" in other states. While bits of information about these various incidents can be found in various news sources and could very well be mentioned in other articles, there is no evidence to show that they are interconnected, nor is there any evidence to support the lede's assertion that there are gangs of correctional officers named "The Brotherhood" or "The Brotherhood of the Strong
— User:Location, 19:05, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:SYNTH (Wikipedia:Notability)