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+Police lawsuits are a huge financial burden. Elison and Frosch 15: |
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+Zusha Elinson and Dan Frosch. “Cost of Police-Misconduct Cases Soars in Big U.S. Cities.” Wall Street Journal. July 15, 2015. JY. |
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+The cost of resolving police-misconduct cases has surged for big U.S |
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+that might help alleviate the possibility of some of these huge civil suits.” |
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+Municipalities pay, not police departments. Cohen |
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+Rachel Cohen. “City Coffers, Not Police Budgets, Hit Hard By the High Cost of Brutality.” The American Prospect. September 26, 2014. JY. |
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+In 2013, Chicago paid out a stunning $84.6 million in police |
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+As a result, the settlement costs do not act as a deterrence.” |
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+Impacts |
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+Increased spending leads to budget strains. Cooper: |
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+Michael Cooper. “More Gloom Lies Ahead for Cities, Report Says.” New York Times, September 27, 2011. JY. |
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+Nearly a third of the nation’s cities are laying off workers this year. More |
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+will continue to play out in cities through 2011, 2012 and beyond.” |
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+Fire!!!! Seegert |
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+Liz Seegert (senior fellow at the Center for Health, Media and Policy at Hunter College in New York City). “Report on these unintended health consequences of municipal budget cuts.” Association of Health Care Journalists. July 7, 2016. JY. |
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+Many budget-crunched municipalities have been forced to cut back on essential services, |
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+AND |
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+up elder-specific fire safety programs can help fill an urgent void. |
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+This leads to tax increases which disproportionately burden poor and black communities. Phillip: |
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+Abby Phillip. “Why the poor often pay for police misconduct with their pocketbooks.” The Washington Post. June 2015 |
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+Floyd Dent, a black man from Inkster |
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+ out to victims. |
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+Outweighs redress good- a) redress is only good if the wrongdoer pays; the plan just creates more victims by putting the burden on taxpayers, and b) legal fees are expensive so the victim only receives a small chunk of the costs. |