Comment by wvenable
18 days ago
I disagree. The city or state gets sued and they pay the result from the taxpayer funds and literally nobody learns anything, especially not the hard way. Everyone is so completely divorced, and in some cases immune, from consequences that this will change nothing.
After a couple million dollar lawsuits the city or state will learn to be more careful with their methods. It's the taxpayer funds, but it's not an endless supply of money. Cities and states have their own budgets.
More than $1.5 billion has been spent to settle claims of police misconduct involving thousands of officers repeatedly accused of wrongdoing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...
Good point! It shows that the settlements are far too low and that the victims should get a lot more.
If a few cities/states were to default due to debts coming from such cases, the others would start to take notice...
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Do we have any evidence that these lawsuits have no effect on the number of wrongdoings?
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> After a couple million dollar lawsuits the city or state will learn to be more careful with their methods
You'd think, but watching how many millions my local police department and city paid out every single year leads me to believe they just don't care.
How many, exactly? Anyone can wave vagueness around. Do you have numbers or no?
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There’s a heck of a lot of individual cities and states. Their ability to remain solvent is greater than your ability to stay out of jail.
No. It's not their money and they don't care.
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The cities and states make laws to better govern police behavior. You can look back on a century of history of this.