Departments even budget for such settlements, Schwartz said. Her research shows that "in most jurisdictions, payouts in police misconduct cases are less than 1% of local government's budgets." On average, funding a police department takes about a third or a quarter of a city's budget, Schwart...
City Closer to Paying $32.75 Million in Settlements for Police Misconduct
Police Misconduct Attorney Jerry L. Steering has been suing the Police since 1984 for Police Brutality, False Arrests, Malicious Prosecutions and Wrongful Death
But five years later, Cleveland has paid more money in police misconduct settlements than in the five years before Rice was killed. In 2017, according to public records obtained by FiveThirtyEight and The Marshall Project, the city paid $7.9 million (including $3 million for...
Misconduct complaints can be quantified on a city-by-city basis, but these data are often subjective, and far more complaints are filed than ever are evaluated at trial. Corruption is even harder to measure. As the National Institute of Justice acknowledged in its May 2000 report, The ...
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...
CHICAGO — The city of Chicago has paid more than $578 million since 2016 in judgments, settlements and legal fees relating to claims of police misconduct. It is a staggering figure but observers say taxpayers aren’t done paying yet. They predict millions of dollars more will be spent as ...
There are multiple cases like this and the costs of police misconduct settlements keep rising. Cities like Alburquerque, NM lack to put more money into risk-management funds because it takes away money from somewhere else. A city councilor claims that “having to put more money into that fund...
Challenging Police Repression: Federal Activism and Local Reform in New York City During the 1990s, New York City witnessed a wave of police brutality cases—involving Abner Louima, Amadou Diallo, and many others—that made police misconduct front-page news. Under the Clinton administration, the fe...
(11-24-2021) - "An international law firm based in Ohio is playing an increasingly large role in how the city of Minneapolis handles a variety of controversial police issues, from investigating police misconduct to representing the city as its police force is investigated by state and federal ...