Chicago taxpayers paid $295 million between 2019 and 2024 to resolve lawsuits naming officers whose alleged misconduct led more than once to payouts, according to an analysis of city data by WTTW News. In all, the city spent $491.7 million to resolve lawsuits alleging 1,643 Chicago police officers committed a wide range of misconduct.
— Read on news.wttw.com/2025/09/23/repeated-police-misconduct-272-officers-has-cost-chicago-taxpayers-295m-2019-analysis
Tag: Police Misconduct
Minnesota police group fights release of undercover officers’ names
The Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association is suing the Minnesota POST forreleasing the names of undercover police officers to media outlets, but many have already been publiclyidentified.
— Read on sahanjournal.com/news-partners/undercover-minnesota-police-officers-post-board-mppoa-lawsuit/
Thousands of Once-Secret Police Records Are Now Public. Here’s How You Can Use Them | KQED
The database, which includes about 12,000 cases detailing police misconduct and serious use of force from hundreds of agencies, is the first of its kind in California.
— Read on www.kqed.org/news/12050100/thousands-of-once-secret-police-records-are-now-public-heres-how-you-can-use-them
Police oppose new plan to overhaul qualified immunity
The contentious debate over qualified immunity for police officers returned to Beacon Hill as law enforcement leaders forcefully pushed back against a bill that would ease the path for civil rights claims against officers in Massachusetts courts.
— Read on www.lowellsun.com/2025/08/03/police-oppose-new-plan-to-overhaul-qualified-immunity/
Jacksonville cops in hot water after brutalizing driver • Florida Phoenix
“We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.” — The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Aug. 28, 1963
As galling as it has been to watch a Jacksonville sheriff’s deputy break a car window and punch a non-combative man in the face, the feeble justification from the sheriff and a determination from the state attorney that cops did nothing wrong is just as infuriating.
The Feb. 19 videotape of an encounter with William McNeil, Jr. and a posse of rogue officers from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, and their brutal response, is a searing reminder of everything wrong with policing in America.
— Read on floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/02/jacksonville-cops-in-hot-water-after-brutalizing-driver/
New Orleans Police Dashboard Aims for Transparency, Some Say It Could Hurt the Very Officers It Tracks
A new police accountability database is in the works for New Orleans designed to make disciplinary records more accessible to the public.
— Read on www.wdsu.com/article/new-orleans-police-dashboard-aims-for-transparency-some-say-it-could-hurt-the-very-officers-it-tracks/65385324
CPD Working to ‘Fix’ Problem That Led to 211K Undocumented Traffic Stops, Police Official Tells City Panel | Chicago News | WTTW
CPD reported to state officials that officers made 295,846 traffic stops in 2024. But police dispatchers recorded that officers made an additional 210,622 stops in 2024 that were not documented, raising questions about how many traffic stops took place last year.
— Read on news.wttw.com/2025/07/02/cpd-working-fix-problem-led-211k-undocumented-traffic-stops-police-official-tells-city
Chicago keeps controversial police promotion list secret – Chicago Reader
The CPD committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017. Now, the city claims it would be an invasion of privacy.
— Read on chicagoreader.com/news/reader-investigative-reports/cpd-merit-promotion-police/
Discipline for police misconduct on the rise in New Jersey, data shows • New Jersey Monitor
Nearly 550 officers in New Jersey were fired, demoted, or suspended for more than five days in 2024 for misconduct, up from 460 cops in 2023.
— Read on newjerseymonitor.com/2025/07/07/discipline-for-police-misconduct-on-the-rise-in-new-jersey-data-shows/
See the NJ Attorney General’s website on police discipline
Louisville resolution acknowledges the harm LMPD has caused | Opinion
Where were the Politicians when this was happening? The politicians oversee the police department.
Louisville Metro Council passed a resolution acknowledging the wrongs committed by LMPD and endorsing police reform. It’s a significant turning point.
— Read on www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/07/04/lmpd-louisville-resolution-metro-council-police-reform/84434222007/
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