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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 |
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+AND |
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+some of these huge civil suits.” |
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+And, municipalities pay, not police departments. Cohen 14: |
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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 |
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+AND |
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+settlement costs do not act as a deterrence.” |
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+Also, increased spending leads to budget strains. Cooper 11: |
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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. |
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+AND |
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+will continue to play out in cities through 2011, 2012 and beyond.” |
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+Also, this leads to tax increases which disproportionately burden poor and black communities. Phillip 15: |
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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, Mich., was pulled over for a routine traffic stop in |
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+AND |
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+tort reform; some states have even capped judgments that can be paid out to victims. |