Repeated Police Misconduct by 200 Officers Cost Chicago Taxpayers $164.3M Over 5 Years: Analysis | Chicago News | WTTW

Cases that involved at least one officer with repeated claims of misconduct accounted for nearly 43% of the $384.2 million paid by taxpayers to resolve police misconduct cases between 2019 and 2023, according to the analysis.

The issue with this report is that there is no like to the analysis.

The report doesn’t indicate how many cases went to trial, lost at trial, cases where compromises were made.

Keep in mind that with police misconduct law suits the Municipality acts in its own interests. Not in the interests of the officers. This means the officers can be innocent of the accusations and the Municipality would settle if it thinks it less expensive or politically advantageous to settle.
— Read on news.wttw.com/2024/08/12/repeated-police-misconduct-200-officers-cost-chicago-taxpayers-1643m-over-5-years

Police Whistleblowers Lack Protections After They Expose Misconduct | The Marshall Project

Whistleblower laws have advanced in public and private sectors, but protections for police who report illegal or unethical behavior lag far behind.
— Read on www.themarshallproject.org/2024/08/03/police-congress-corruption-whistleblower

NYPD monitor tracking stop and frisk abuses has cost $36 million | News | flcourier.com

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department monitor, in place more than a decade after a federal judge said officers abused the stop and frisk tactic, violating the constitutional
— Read on www.flcourier.com/news/nypd-monitor-tracking-stop-and-frisk-abuses-has-cost-36-million/article_d44c7062-24ce-11ef-abb0-43172fb12a19.html

Policy Brief: Understanding and Improving Early Intervention Systems – University of Chicago Crime Lab

Most of the public discussion about police misconduct in America has focused on what to do after a tragedy occurs – should the officer be disciplined or even prosecuted, should they be allowed to move to a new department and continue working as a police officer, and how can we put into place trustworthy systems for investigating police misconduct, etc. Those are important questions, but in some sense, they are too late. Ideally, we would like to identify a way to prevent misconduct from occurring in the first place, which would spare members of the public from experiencing harm – and help save the careers of officers themselves.
— Read on crimelab.uchicago.edu/resources/policy-brief-understanding-and-improving-early-intervention-systems/

The Philadelphia Sheriff Office’s 170-year history of dysfunction

Bad headlines about the Sheriff’s office didn’t start with Rochelle Bilal. There’s a 170-year history of misadventure.
— Read on www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/inq2/philadelphia-sheriff-office-dysfunction-history-20240319.html

the History of Policing in Louisville

louisvilleky.gov/mayor-craig-greenberg/document/2024-history-policing-louisville

High-profile incidents of police brutality sway public opinion more than performance of local law enforcement: Study

National media coverage of police brutality influences public perceptions of law enforcement more than the performance of people’s local police departments, according to data analysis from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, …
— Read on phys.org/news/2024-02-high-profile-incidents-police-brutality.html

‘I just went bent’: how Britain’s most corrupt cop ruined countless lives | Police | The Guardian

How many people did DS Derek Ridgewell fit up? The sheer scale of his depravity, and his targeting of men of colour, is only now becoming clear
— Read on www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/25/i-just-went-bent-how-britains-most-corrupt-cop-ruined-countless-lives

The Truth about George Floyd- The Glenn Show

The Glenn Show is an excellent podcast that at times tackles the issues of race, crime, and policing.

In this episode the authors discuss the documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis” (see earlier posts for a link). The authors are academics and not police. They have interesting discussions and opinions on the film and the George Floyd incident.

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— See it on bloggingheads.tv/videos/67137

Misconduct settlements can cost millions but police rarely feel impact

The only factor to keep in mind is that municipalities like to settle out of court. They also settle for political reasons,for example the George Floyd case, new evidence is available that shows that Floyd died from Fentanyl. FYI – see “The Fall of Minneapolis” (https://www.thefallofminneapolis.com)

Last week, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $700,000 settlement for a radio reporter who was slammed to the ground and taken into custody during a demonstration in September 2020.

That announcement came days after the city council in Fort Worth, Texas, proposed a $3.5 million settlement for the nephew of Atatiana Jefferson, who was fatally shot by a police officer in 2019. Jefferson was playing video games with her nephew when she was killed.

These payouts are just a fraction of the reported billions of dollars paid by local governments around the country to resolve lawsuits related to allegations of police misconduct.
— Read on www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/17/who-pays-police-misconduct-settlements/71516795007/