Louisville payouts for police lawsuits burden city budget
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- A payout of $7.5 million to a man who was falsely charged, convicted and imprisoned for a murder he didn’t commit.
Those represent some of the payouts Louisville Metro government has made over the past five years to settle dozens of lawsuits accusing the city’s police department of complaints ranging from wrongful arrests to drivers who were stopped and searched illegally.
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Start paying the settlements out of the police retirement account. That might open their eyes.
Bravo. well said
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Bad idea..
As well as,no qualified immunity,no more internal affairs investigating.. that should be an outside, impartial panel..that would tidy things up a whole lot.
As long as the money solves the problems it will continue. They have to go to jail and that's it.
This is what happens when cops are not personally liable for the lawsuits they cause.
And please don't care if they get sued because it's the taxpayer that's gonna be on the hook. I believe it needs to be the police officers that are on the hook financially
Most police make 3x what teachers make.
I do think the city should pay for police misconduct, but I also think the officer/s responsible should be terminated and possibly prosecuted
@@bchearne No, BOTH.
At the very least police should be made to carry personal liability insurance
This has to stop. The lack of accountability alone is unacceptable.
Imagine costing taxpayers millions of dollars every year and still having professional pride?
$176000 for TEN MONTHS of his life is pathetic! He should be paid MILLIONS!
I’m glad to see insurance carriers finally refusing to insure a city.
Maybe the damn city should take a harder look at the PD and let the funds come out of the PDs allocated yearly budget. Once they exhaust their funds b/c of payouts of their rogue cops, maybe the PD will start cracking down on the illegal actions of their cops.
When there has been several years of losses and the actuaries start saying that they don’t have a clue what next years policy should cost, insurance companies have no option other than refusal.
I've seen law review articles on this very subject. People forget the power of insurance. If BLM wanted to get action on their protests, they should have directed their energies to the insurance companies that cover municipalities. BLM protests police. Police yawns. Insurance companies threaten to pull coverage, heads roll. Although I'd love to see qualified immunity overturned for EVERY government official, not just police, second best would be to see insurance companies getting more aggressive with police departments. And yes, there have been police departments disbanded over insurance cancellation. Usually small towns, small departments. Sooner or later, it will happen to a larger city. Louisville sounds like a prime candidate.
we need more municipalities the do what that cesspool called Coffee City Tx recently did.. FIRE THE ENTIRE POLICE DEPT and start over
Insurance companies are akin to gangsters walking around collecting protection racket money.
So what does it say when your city ISNT WORTH STEALING FROM?
Most professionals purchase malpractice insurance. Make individual cops do the same.
Police are not professionals, they are hired gang members.
I had to carry it as a nurse.
Teachers get professional insurance when they join the National Education Association.
If it were up to school districts they'd let us hang.
exactly... that and remove qualified immunity.
This!!
The constant ASSHOLISM of some Law Enforcement Dept. is just plain DISGUSTING!😡
Some? You mean most?
Way to many.
Criminal Law Enforcement and policies officers must be held to account for their crimes against any and all citizens! NO BLANKET QUALIFIED IMMUNITY for any form of TYRANNY!
End qualified immunity. Cops need to pay for misconduct on their dime. If individual cops are uninsurable they’re done
Go after their retirement money.
@@PlasmaStorm73 that is exactly what I’m saying. A policy that an insurance actuator will run the numbers on and when it’s deemed your too much of a loose canon your done
@@suprambyAgreed
Start giving these white cops mental health evaluations before they get hired
What makes you think there was misconduct? Because the thief was black?
These lawsuits the money should be taken out of the police budget let the police defund themselves
The police are literally bankrupting the city.
Hit the pensions
It won't fix the problem..
@@LonnieBrewer-dd4wi What did you do to get put on desk/troll duty? Shot an unarmed, innocent child in the back because you, "feared for your life", did you?
Make them purchase liability insurance like we force doctors to carry, paid for individually just like doctors and, as malicious prosecution, misconduct, deprivation of rights under color of law and excessive force charges drive up the cost of premiums, the corrupt/tyrannical pigs won't be able to afford to keep bullying/waging war against those of us who pay their salaries through taxation.
Until cops have to pay out of pocket it will never change.
My daughter just graduated from Paul Mitchell Hair design school. She went to school longer than police officers are required to. Let that sink in. Flippin crazy. These payouts are a direct resukt of egos, education, continued training & most of all leadership
In all 50 states, *it takes more hours of training to become a barber than it takes to become a cop.*
$176,000.00 for the pain, suffering and 10 months in jail?? That’s a bargain for the city!! This innocent gentleman shouldn’t have settled and gone to trial!!!
I was thinking the same thing, if I'm ever drug into some bs like this, i charge $10,000 per hour... my time is valuable, and I'm not settling.
It supposed be 23k per day for wrongdul imprisonment , trezvant vs Tampa so 23k x 10 months is called no insurance ,crap lawyers should at least got a 2.3 mill
He just wanted to get it over with.
That might be his leftover after paying his lawyer. Still a nice piece of change.
@Rodzrd that's what I was thinking and I believe the city taxes it as well
This tragedy is not just a fault of the police. It is also the fault of the prosecutors, the defenders and the judges. They should’ve taken all of the other evidence into account and released him immediately. There was no reason for him to sit in jail for 10 months.
OH yes there is! The judicial system has to take care of their blue line buddies who feed their system which keeps them employed. Cop, jail system, prosecutor public defender, all the support people in the jail police and court system. Without their blue line buddies doing this all the time about half of the system could be 'laid off'. Some ones tax dollars at work!!
It's the fault of the whole system which has rotted from within. The system has turned rogue.
I fear for my life walking the streets of America as a Black man, because we've developed a Feral Pig problem.
Color me crazy at your own risk!
You say what I have been saying for years.
@nwflagudatit9944 the more ppl get put in jail the more money private jail gets from from us the taxpayers which is why it's a billion dollar industry
Their job is literally to investigate 😂
That's when judges need to revoke Qualified Immunity for all police officers, so to lift the burden on the taxpayers of the community. Once it hurts the pocketbooks of the police, things will change.
Instead of making the taxpayer fit the bill from lawsuits from police misconduct… take the settlements out of the police pension fund, and then sit back and watch the police start to police themselves
I said it 100s of times. If lawsuits were paid out of the police departments budgets, out of police officers salaries and retirement funds all of this will end. Immediately.
Politicians value police pensions more than the taxpayers budget
I doubt that will work, thanks to a little thing called -legal- -robberies- civil forfeiture.
YEP!
I agree a thousand percent. Stop having the tax payers pay for police wrong doings. Make them pay ,out of their pockets, then this will all stop. As long as we have to pay it will never ever stop. It is not affecting them in anyway or their family, it leaves us in devastation .
Well you guys can save money by not allowing cops to hunt people. Just a thought.
And this is what happens when there are no REAL consequences. Even if the officers are charged the judge will probably go easy on them. They can just quit and go to another department. If all of the easy outs are taken away, I believe things may get better.
The judges are as corrupt as the officers……
Things are not going to change. The entire system is built on police containing the slaves.
We the people need to come together first and get all the judges, DA ,mayor, city council voted out, people forgetting we have a republic, this new generation are giving the power to the politicians and public officials.
Okkk. What about the bad cops though?
@@plutotech
"Okkk. What about the bad cops though?"
Cops exist because corrupt politicians hire them.
Corrupt politicians exist because the people keep voting for them.
The question is not what about cops, the question is what about bad citizens.
But in the end, the people who keep electing the officials who keep hiring the cops are the people who are responsible for all of the crimes committed by the police. The taxpayers of Louisville are the people who have approved of all the corruption and lawlessness that the government they voted for engages in.
“Letting a demonstration be judged by its most violent participants but not judging a police force by its most violent cops is the language of the oppressor.”
--R. Andrew Free
Bad police officers can only exist with the approval and protection of all of the other police officers, which makes them accessories before, to, and after the fact. If there were actually any good police officers (i. e. law enforcement officers) there would be no bad police officers because they would be arrested for their crimes.
A police force that approves and protects bad police officers can only exist with the approval and protection of the chain-of-command, which makes them accessories before, to, and after the fact. If there was any good police officers in the chain of command, there would be no bad police officers because they would be arrested for their crimes by the good police officers (i. e. law enforcement officers).
The chain-of-command for the police officers that approves and protects bad police officers can only exist with the approval and protection of the elected officials of the government, which makes them accessories before, to, and after the fact. If there were any good elected officials then there would not be any bad police officers because the good police officers would arrest them for the crimes.
The elected officials that approves and protects bad police officers can only exist with the approval and protection of the voters, which makes them accessories before, to, and after the fact. That means the voters and even more so the non-voters are ultimately responsible for bad police officers.
So anyone who whines and complains about the citizens having to pay for the actions of bad police officers is a simple minded putz who deserves to be abused by the cops, one after the other.
It's absolutely terrifying to know that ANYONE can spend 10 freakin' months in jail *without committing a single crime.*
Such is history
Not anyone - just people of color
Ten months in jail for a crime he did not commit. This brother ought to own the city. FTP
NM the other guy that was in for TEN YEARS
If you've never had this kind of force used against you there's no way you can understand just how devastating it is. That one guy in the backseat of the police car crying, pleading his innocence is only the beginning of his suffering.
Total hopelessness, when you're being attacked and mistreated by the very people you're supposed to call when you're attacked and mistreated.
@@robertdaly9162 Absolute Hopelessness my friend, sadly I've experienced it several times at hands of our caretakers. Worst is the knowledge they can pin whatever on you, and there's nothing you can do.
Cops have more power than the president they can ruin your life in a heartbeat
His fault for trying to sell Xbox while black
@@Beast_from_the_middle_eastbasically
Ten months!
Maybe the cops should be given ten years since they screwed up!
The city got off cheap!
very cheap! That just shows you how little they value the lives they ruin.
What makes it particularly egregious is they saw the receipt and they knew that young man didn't steal the Xbox.
Guy should have got more than that $176,000, should have been over a million.
I'm surprised he didn't get ROR or a bail bondsman
@drivingreview1578 felony robbery. Probably didn't get bail. Or it was astronomical high if he did.
176k for 10 months …..he should have fired his lawyer.
As an Australian this makes me sick
This is also the failure of the Mayor and City Council for not calling in the chief and holding them accountable.
The problem is that even when the ejected officials try to act, their hands are tied because of the protections allotted to cops through their unions. They can’t even fire bad cops
When you are white there is no accountability. This has been going on for decades
It always comes down from above. Mayor is the source of the problem, Chief his lackey, everyone under them tainted.
Like I said the whole system has failed us citizens,,.
Yes but DA,judges and court appoited lawyers, are the problem also.
I can't imagine how angry I'd be if I'm arrested for something I didn't do. Moreover, I'd be even more pissed off that the police didn't do their jobs. $0.175M because you refuse to read a receipt? Kidnapping? Those cops must go to jail.
This happens in my all the time.
@@howlinwulf i believe you and that's effed up. This instance should be the outlier; not the expected norm
Haha try this my girlfriend went cookcoo try to hurt herself i took the knife away call the cops to helped her I went to jail now that’s special 😮
The money they gave him was peanuts! He should have gotten ten million dollars
Start attaching settlements/suits to pensions and paychecks. This crap will disappear almost overnight.
I work in healthcare (Radiology) and when you commit and act of harm or allow harm to come to a patient, you are almost immediately fired and reported to whomever your professional license is issued by which they in turn pretty much permanently revoke it which of course means you career is over.
Policing seems to be the only profession where misconduct is not only encouraged be often rewarded and the citizens pay the cost of it and yet we do nothing about it
The idea is that so long as law enforcement catches some bad guys, then the innocent is just collateral damage. Scotus isn't the one laying for these lawsuits, so they are fine with ignoring the consequences of QI, in the interest of labeling some constitutional rights violations as necessary to prevent greater harms. However, since it's the taxpayers bearing the burden with no control over the process, then scotus's position isnt based on any sort of established reasoning or precedent, but its own internally generated opinion.
Yup.
It sickens me to see these cases where my ten-year-old daughter can do a better investigation job than supposedly trained police officers. When a citizen has the receipt for a purchased item and the police refuse to look at it, those police should have been held financially accountable.
They saw the receipt, and admitted that the x-box wasn't stolen, but decided since someone says he looks like the guy they can stop looking now.
Lazy, inept police officers.And both probably got a promotion.
Aussie here. Cannot believe the behaviour of these tyrannical police and their immunity against any sort of responsibility! Wake up America make these criminal cops financially responsible, for any and all, of their criminal behaviours and wrong doings .. we shake our heads in horror!
He's right to feel disgusted...he settled for 176k which should have been 1.76 million. Should have told them to shove that amount.
Apologies young man. Sorry this happened. They will slowly investigate themselves and of course find no wrong doing. 0% accountability, integrity, and moral compass sums up police agencys world wide! They are above the very laws they expect us peasents to follow! The absurdity is these criminals create and commit more crime than any group of people in our society!!! Let that sink in💯
It's not world wide.
In United Kingdom a "bobbie" was seen switching price labels between carrots and a box of donuts (cheaper).
It was reported, he was fired and put on the national "do not hire" list.
Why can't we have standards like that?
No matter how much money they offer as restitution, it can never give back time nor the life of a loved one. I am a firm believer that training and the probationary period should be a lot longer and that situational awareness becomes a bigger part of their interactions. 0 to 100 is no longer acceptable. Officers need to deescalate situations and make better judgment choices. There are humans at the other end of their decisions. Hoping a judge will figure it out is not good enough. They may say innocent until proven guilty, but it has not been my experience
"No policy violation. Internal Affairs doesn't deal with criminal offences. Back to work."
@@veramae4098 It's absolutely world wide. Police everywhere are enabled with immunity from accountability for their actions. This is by design.
UK police are FULL of officers who have been founds to be criminals.
We wouldn't let a plumber or electrician who didn't know or do their jobs you wouldn't let them work on your house, why do we accept law enforcement that doesn't know or do their jobs when their mistakes cost people their freedom and LIVES??!!
My niece told me that a similar incident happened to her BF. They went to a convenience store where a robbery took place earlier. She sat in the car while her BF went into the store. As soon as he went in officers swooped in and surrounded him with their guns drawn. Another customer came out and asked her if that was her BF and that she needed to get in there because they got guns on him. When she went in the cashier was screaming that’s not the guy that robbed me. After minutes went by and they listened to the cashier the officers lowered their weapons and questioned him further before letting him go. I totally agree that those financial judgments should come out of the officer’s’ retirement. That’ll make them think twice. SMH
Umm, they will just stop turning up and won't want to police crime.
@@sydtopia Funny you should say that. There was a drive by about weeks ago and my cameras outside of my business caught the rapid gunfire AND the car as it drove by. I called the no emergency number for the police. The officer came out and concluded that since the gun fire began on the county side it was an issue for the sheriff’s department. He also said it sounded more like firecrackers. I have a small restaurant and many law officials from various counties pop in for lunch. I played the video for 3 of them. They all agreed that it was gun fire. One deputy said whatever officer told you that it wasn’t needs to turn in his shield AND gun. I went down to the station and the duty officer said since there was no structural damage or no one injured there was nothing to investigate. No problem. When they need to see footage from my cameras they will be down.
@@angelabell5087 and you are surprised? Gun volience has gone up you stupid levels. You may think it is bad, but to them it is just Tuesday.
Stop settling with them! Take this to jury. 170K minus attorneys fees for 10 months in jail for no reason. Absolutely not.
Require all police to carry malpractice insurance and make them pay all judgements for violation of constitutional rights and the law. And if their record is too bad to get insurance coverage...then they can't be cops.
There was a Receipt for the Xbox, “How in the hell did this poor man get tased and incarcerated!!!! He clearly paid for the item!
Because the system is dirty and corrupt. Cops are dirty and corrupt.
Cops don’t be caring they chasing that promotion
And this is what happens when police aren't personally accountable for their bad actions. Towns will go broke and insurance companies will not insure towns and the taxpayer will be on the hook police need to be financially accountable or carry their. Own insurance
This is why I no longer live in America. The arbitrary and unequal justice system causes the feeling of spinning the wheel of faith every time you step off of the plane.
176 000? Are you kidding me? 10 million more like it
This insurance disaster was bound to happen.
Consequence, not disaster
Hey look, the cops are defunding themselves!!!
Lol. Really the cops are simply defunding us.
Have the police retirement plan and the police union pay the bills and I guarantee you will see proper policing. The police have no sense of accountability so they don’t worry, someone else will pay for their will negligence and incompetence.
I am "shocked and appalled" that they are defunding the police! How DARE the police defund themselves?! /s
They never care if you have a receipt for your items. It's devastating to their case against you.
"Stop telling the truth; you're making us look bad!"
It pure lazy policing and they wouldn't know how to investigate nah it cuff and stuff let the courts work it out.
Making police as intimately responsible for their missteps as surgeons who make mistakes is absolutely valid and logical.
10 months, that should have been good for $2.5 mil instead of just 176, 000.00
When police are charged with crimes it should be mandatory to not allow plea deals and the maximum penalty enforced. Enough of this murder turned manslaughter, robberies turned petty larceny etc
end qualified immunity and force them to carry personal liability to pay for their transgressions. After a law suit they become uninsurable, the problem sorts itself.
So at what point did they not look and see it was not the one in the robbery. Immediately. He had his receipt. Morons.
The police simply do not care, their moto is kill, or destroy lives with a smile.
Dangerous and possibly lethal morons.
They saw it immediately, they just didn't care. Its not like they face any consequences for being bad cops
They did not care because there is rarely a personal consequence for them
One cop even asked the other cop if the receipt showed the Xbox they took from the guy. The cop said no. If he looked at the receipt he had to have known. When they entered it into the evidence room, it should have been noticed.
None of them looked. 😮
It's not "as if they're immune," they ARE immune - it's called Qualified Immunity. I believe that it came from a good place because City officials who are performing their jobs within the parameters of that function should not be personally liable for lawsuits that may occur. But that's been so egregiously corrupted that the initial intent has been completely lost.
Thanks for exposing police corruption.
Not only they cost cities millions but get to quietly retire, or move to another police department. A cop who cost millions to a city should never be able to work as a cop ever again. It's just common sense. But no, these criminals get to restart fresh and continue committing crimes.
Thanks SCOTUS judges for giving as qualified immunity, and making police so unaccountable to the public !
Start making these individuals pay out of their pocket and or spend time in jail, like spend 10 months in jail if you put this guy to jail for 10 months. If you don't hold anybody responsible ( like our politicians) for WRONG DOING or breaking the Law, NOTHING CHANGES. HOW hard is it that you can't figure this out? They can't be that stupid. They just don't care.
The huge difference in the amount of settlement payouts before and after 2017 probably comes down to more persons being informed about their civil rights and more persons capturing the situations on camera otherwise most events would be sweeped under the rug as its always been
To arrest someone for selling their own property is beyond incompetence, to keep him jail for 10 months is evil. To see that woman tased @ 2:45 was painful to watch.
As tyranny always should!!
Time for these "police" are held accountable and their pensions are used to pay for their actions
It is up to the taxpayers to put a stop to this mismanagement of their tax dollars. REVOLT! When city management continues to back bad policing, then they should not be able to use tax dollars to pay settlements. Get rid of qualified immunity. Get rid of police unions and change the police’s bill of rights to include consequences and accountability so that the public is protected.
Until we hold these barbarians liable for their actions, it won't stop. The people of Louisville, rich or poor should take the streets every week to demand reform
Yes. They tried that and a lot were arrested. Most in Louisville don’t even realize what’s going on.
I'm glad Louisville is facing this issue and hope more cities are put in the same situation. Now, it's up to the taxpayers to make mayoral and city council election decisions to reflect where they'd like to see changes in how police hiring and lawsuit settlements are handled.
Fire them all and start a new police services unit.
I'm just curious, but I wonder what would happened if they got rid of some those trigger ready cops, and those who remain, actually honor and respected peoples rights and property and the constitution, would happen? You suppose the number of lawsuits would decrease? Just a thought
Thats that crazy talk we cant have that they are too scared of their own shadows. They have to kill people and use so much force cause they are so scared all the time.
If you did that, you'd be down to about one and a half cops on the force.
The problem is, who tf wants to be a cop besides the trigger happy ones. With all the BS they gotta go through, wearing body cameras, having to defend themselves in legitimate cases where there was clearly resisting arrest and an ignorant population that think they have the right to resist lawful arrest? I don't get it.
actually honor and respected peoples rights and property and the constitution, would happen? THAT IS A FANTASY AND YOU ARE FOOL IF YOU BELIEVE IT
Police join the police. There are no "good apples".
If we're (tax payers) are footing the bill for these idiots, maybe we're the ones who should be training them. Just like we train our pets, we can train these animals.
I'm cool with that considering most of them are like rabid dogs, and we all know what happens to rabid dogs 😊
Make the police officers pay the settlements. They started all this sh!t.
Need to hold officers accountable. Throw them in the slammer and ban them from all governmental positions. Make a national registry. If any police department hires them, they get serious trouble and the former officer gets serious time in jail.
Cops are so much of a liability the city cannot buy liability insurance. Hummm, is there a problem here?
Corruption has no limits, especially for Government!!!
*Law enforcement wants Our Rights curtailed to Privileges and Permission,... So does Our Elected Officials and Judges as well!!*
All police officers should be required to have their own basic liability insurance that the city will pay. When the insurance company raises the premium on a bad officer the officers are required to pay the difference. When an officer can't get insurance anymore they will lose their certification
176.thousend you had a bad lawyer
Qualified imunity got cops acting like criminals
Right on
Cops don't have qualified immunity for everything they can and should be prosecuted for not doing their due diligence.
They were criminals before they came up with qualified immunity
People get so angry at "defund the police" but don't say a word when the police is working hard at defunding the tax payers.
How many cops responsible for all of these settlements actually were held responsible (beyond a paid vacation/suspension)?
Educated fools from uneducated schools is a cop graduating from the police academy.
Pay lawsuits from officers personal salaries,pensions, savings, their homes and from their depts., and you will start seeing changes.
What haunts me the most is it’s never going to stop because the higher-ups don’t care, and they let the little weasels. They were nothing but thugs carry on. We need to start taking those higher-ups jobs away, and they might start looking at things differently.
Kentuckians keep voting for those higher ups to stay in power.
There's only ONE REASON why nothing changes. It's because the PEOPLE don't care enough to complain to elected officials. Only politics can change this..
@@adrian-gr8hgExactly this!!!!!
Politics put these laws in place. Politics started the unions. The government duh....
The solution is that these payouts need to come directly out of the police budget.once a city council authorizes a budget and issues the allotment for the year, the onus should be on that departments budget (and not the city coffers) to cover the costs of awards. If it was done this way, you would see how quickly department's began policing and purging themselves of bad apples who threatened their department's ability to function. This is the solution.
They need to take a page from coffee county and fire the entire department and start over...
We must END QUALIFIED IMMUNITY before there will be any police accountability. We are living in a police State nation now because of no accountability.
Louisville police department has been running a criminal enterprise for decades and it finally caught up to them. 😆🤣
If they are paying out that much why aren't they looking at better training the cops, or do they just want others to keep paying.
That's the start..
Training is not the problem, recruitment is!
You could have the cops be required to pass the bar in order to get a policing license. If there is no accountability they have nothing to fear.
The solution to this is simple! Start taken the money from the police retirement fund, and the budget. They will clean up there act so fast.
Yah well, punishing the tax payer doesn't bother the cops at all.
I'd break the law too, if the courts made someone else pay my penalties.
This is a golden reason of why we need "Qualified Immunity"! Instead of settlements being paid out of the taxpayers money it needs to be paid out of the officers and our police unions. They committed the crime let them pay for the dirty deed!
That's not how QI works.
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Qualified immunity protects officers from lawsuits for the alleged violation of the plaintiff's rights. Only suits where a " clearly established statutory, or constitutional right" violation are allowed. As long as an officer stays within the "framework of their duties" they are protected. That is why you hear an officer say "yeah the xbox doesn't matter, we still have him on robbery", because he was initially stopped as a robbery suspect. This is also why most DA's won't prosecute
Cities, municipalities, get your pigs under control or get your checkbooks out! Tyranny, abuse, and oppression are in full view of the public these days and we are sick of it!
People's minds have been ruined by TV detective dramas; Cop 'investigations' aren't all clues, and forensics, and reasoning. It's arrest first, ask questions never.
Funny how they recognize the problem without doing a damn thing about it and continue to let the cops roam free, violating civil rights.
Qualified Immunity should be granted on a case by case process, instead of providing officers with blanket immunity! This need to happen nationwide!!!
They need to start taking away their pensions to pay for these lawsuits
This is America!
They need to make these pigs pay these settlements. Disband problematic departments.
Innocent and in jail...and receives, BASICALLY, JUST $500 per day....disgusting.....🤢😡
Dirty is dirty.
People call these "excess" legal settlements/judgements, but $176k for ten months in jail?? NOWHERE NEAR SUFFICIENT.
This is what defunding the police is!
That is not the answer. It is an absurd concept.
@@petesmith9472I think the OP is joking...
The police should have to carry individual insurance policy like doctors have too
The gentleman with the X Box should have received much more. The police refused to accept the proof of the man’s innocence. Unreal.
Take away qualified immunity. Problem solved.
Until qualified immunity is quashed, this will continue to happen, unfortunately. All police officers at any level iany department need to be required to have their own personal liability insurance so when they’re sued, the taxpayers don’t foot the bill. And the minute any and all officers no longer have their own personal liability insurance, they need to be terminated immediately. Citizens across our nation are getting sick and tired of paying for corrupt cops that brutalized them and racially profile law biting citizens.
I am so sorry for this man. Bless him Lord.
I agree
All payouts should come from the pension fund. There is no reason for tax payers to pay for bad cops. If it comes from the pension fund the other cops will stop turning a blind eye. It's the only way to call cops to account.