Cenk Uygur
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Police Brutality Settlement Costs THROUGH THE ROOF
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April 16, 2017
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5:48Now PlayingAnd YOUR tax dollars are paying for it all. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"The city spent $228.5 million settling and paying out for judgments in police misconduct lawsuits in fiscal year 2016, according to the just-released Mayor's Management Report. For perspective, that's over a third of all the money the city paid out for lawsuits, almost as much as the $257 million budgeted for the entire Department of Aging, and 100 times what's allocated for the city's Conflict of Interest Board. For even more perspective, that's 0.27 percent of the city's entire 2016 budget, and about $27 per New Yorker.
The staggering figure continues a longstanding trend of growing misconduct payout totals. The latest total is approaching three times the $86.5 million the city paid out for police misconduct suits in 2005.
NYPD officers violating people's civil rights and injuring them unnecessarily is nothing new, but what's interesting is that the ballooning dollar amount going towards settling claims and satisfying court judgments is coinciding with a steady decline in complaints against the department. Consider that in 2012, people brought 5,700 complaints to the Civilian Complaint Review Board, and sued the NYPD 3,600 times. In FY 2016, there were 4,711 CCRB complaints and 2,933 lawsuits.
The disconnect has to do with the timing of court cases.”*
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