Comment by selcuka
18 days ago
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.
18 days ago
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...
Why won't we just dole out real punishments instead of an indirect chain of money? Money is not the solution to everything.
Do we have any evidence that these lawsuits have no effect on the number of wrongdoings?
Did you see the word "repeatedly"?
> 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?
I haven't lived there in years, nor do I have exact numbers, but they make national news enough for the same problem nearly every year. I'll drop you some links if you care.
1 - 38 million between 2017 and 2022.
2 - 29 million in 2023.
3 - 12 million in settlements in 2025.
Dare I keep going?
[1]https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/louisville-payouts-for-police-...
[2]https://www.aol.com/louisville-paid-least-29m-settle-1030450...
[3]https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2026/02/04/...
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NYC has, over the last decade or so, averaged $1M/week in judgments against NYPD for abuses of authority.
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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