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So we should expect zero lawsuits against police officers to have been won at trial or settled last year, right?

• actionfromafar 4y ago
  ~ zero. Tangent: are settlements not typically paid by the city or the union? (And the union will get the money from the city in the end, anyway.)
  • bradleyjg 4y ago
    Always the city. There’s universal indemnification de facto or de jure. This is a bigger issue than QI but gets virtually no attention. I suspect the plaintiff’s bar is behind that as they’d prefer QI go but indemnification stay.
    • adgjlsfhk1 4y ago
      if you fix QI, cities would fix indemnification themselves pretty quickly. The problem with QI is that since the suits never even get started, the police and the cities get to ignore the problem.
• adgjlsfhk1 4y ago
  the actual figure is way lower than it should be. there are, however police officers dumb enough and violent enough to meet the ridiculously high bar that is required.
  • bradleyjg 4y ago
    I don’t disagree. But statements like this are inaccurate and unhelpful: in practice QI is unlimited and absolute