Financial settlements in misconduct cases can be effective too — if individual officers shoulder some of the cost. Schwartz highlighted anew state law in Coloradothat requires an officer who has been found by their department to have acted in bad faith must shoulder up to $25,000 or 5%, whic...
Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the Police since 1984 for Police Brutality, False Arrests, Malicious Prosecutions and Wrongful Death
City of Milwaukee approves $750,000 settlement for NBA player Sterling Brown in police misconduct lawsuit The City of Milwaukee has approved a $750,000 settlement for Sterling Brown, more than three years after the NBA player was tased by police during a run-in with officers over a parking v...
The 26 settlements, which because it is self-insured come out of the city's budget, include some of the largest the city has ever paid on behalf of officers accused of misconduct. The Tamir Rice settlement is included in that number, as well as multi-million-dollar settlements for the dea...
A veteran courtroom litigator with nearly three decades of trial experience and a passion for civil rights, Erik has won many multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements in high-profile police brutality and jail/prison misconduct cases.
Another lawsuit filed this week by a city worker accuses Chauvin of excessive force and again evading discipline. Last year, the Justice Department found "MPD Does Not Adequately Supervise Officers."" Minneapolis police officers reprimanded for misconduct in aftermath of George Floyd's murder (4-5...
The process of filing a lawsuit may be so expensive and complicated that people are only willing to wade into the legal system when they’re victims of egregious misconduct — allowing other damaging behavior to slip under the radar. And then, of course, officers might actu...
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Since 2015, the city of Milwaukee has paid out approximately $22 million in police misconduct settlements. The mayor recently signed a $2.3 million settlement agreement with the family of Dontre Hamilton. He was killed by a police officer in 2014, and his family subsequently filed a federal ...
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