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"(ANTIMEDIA) Cincinnati, OH — Thanks to a recent investigation, it’s been found that America’s notoriously brutal and appalling police tactics now bear a price tag: $1.02 billion—and rapidly rising.
Zusha Elinson and Dan Frosch of the Wall Street Journal conducted an exhaustive study of public records and found that the “10 cities with the largest police departments paid out $248.7 million last year in settlements and court judgments in police-misconduct cases, up 48% from $168.3 million in 2010.”
Claims paid for all alleged beatings, shootings, and wrongful imprisonments by the departments in those same cities totaled $1.02 billion—in just five years. With property damage, vehicle crashes, and various other police incidents added to that five-year sum, the figure astonishingly surpasses $1.4 billion.
These astronomical figures aren’t entirely indicative of a corresponding upsurge in police misconduct since totals include compensatory “efforts to resolve decades-old police scandals.
In 2013 and 2014, for example, Chicago paid more than $60 million in cases where people were wrongfully imprisoned decades ago because of alleged police misconduct.” Compensation per resolution is substantially more expensive than in the past. Philadelphia settled eight such cases in 2010 for an average of $156,937—but just four years later, ten cases averaged $536,500.
In one example cited by the WSJ:
“New York City agreed last year to pay $41 million to five black and Hispanic men imprisoned for the 1989 beating and rape of a jogger in Central Park, then freed after another man confessed and DNA evidence confirmed his story. "
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