NYPD Paid Out Over $428 Million in Settlements Since 2009
And I thought Baltimore’s $12 million was bad.
The NYPD paid over $428 million in settlements over the last five years
by JPat Brown, MuckRock News
As part of an ongoing investigation, MuckRock’s Todd Feathers asked the NYPD for a list of all civil rights lawsuits brought against the department. To his surprise, what he got was every case brought against the NYPD since 2009, and how much those cases cost them. To all of MuckRock’s surprise, that amount is almost half a billion dollars.
And that doesn’t even include court costs.
You can download a spreadsheet from the site that itemized cases and the amount of payouts. There’s over 12500 cases. That’s an average of almost 7 cases per day.