The cost of increasingly militarized police departments (of course in tandem with the legal fees regarding police brutality) isn’t being paid from nowhere. It’s coming straight from the pockets of tax payers, tax payers like you. According to Activist Post:
Bad policing has cost American taxpayers more than $1 billion, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. WSJ reporters Zusha Elinson and Dan Frosch conducted an in-depth study of public records and found the cost of settling police misconduct cases has almost doubled over a five-year period.
“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 percent from $168.3 million in 2010, according to data gathered by The Wall Street Journal through public-records requests,” reported the WSJ. “Those cities collectively paid out $1.02 billion over those five years in such cases, which include alleged beatings, shootings and wrongful imprisonment.”
[…]Of all the the cities tracked by the WSJ, New York had the costliest police department, racking up $601.3 million in legal costs over five years. Payments for settlements and judgments jumped from $93.8 in fiscal year 2013 to $165 million in 2014, reported the WSJ. The city recently paid the family of Eric Garner, who was choked to death during an altercation with Staten Island police, a $5.9 million settlement.
So, we, hard working Americans, have our money stolen from us so cops can cover their backsides for the damage and violence they cause. Anybody can see that this is not right.
Source: Activist Post
Take it out of their pay, uh like fine them!
so unfair, I thought police dept has funds just for this purpose??? why the f*ck are we paying?
lol
That could be changed at the county or town level, I think.
that’s BS !
Pink slip them all no more coddling
screw that
Taxpayer pay for every thing !
we already paying for thugs midconduct and nobody is complaining…just begin with all the money pour is jails….
Many many police officers I have taken advantage