Wrongly-Arrested Nurse Gets $500K Settlement from Cops.

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This only happened a week or two ago and the cops settled already.

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1. from the taxpayers

to be specific

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2. Who elect the Mayor that hires and fires the police chief.

If it were a Deputy Sheriff, the sheriff is elected by the community. The buck stops at an elected official.

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5. Yes taxpayer foots the cost

Damn it’s time for these self righteous pigs pay out of
Their own pockets.

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3. I remember this happening.

I am glad she is seeing a payoff.

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4. Looks like she is donating most of it

to Nursing groups.

Sounds like my nurse, a saint.

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6. It happened in 2017.

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7. Just made the news a few weeks ago.

Most likely that is when the body camera film showed up.

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8. No. This video was posted on You Tube in September 2017.

https://m.

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9. Insurance companies turned 'police regulators' have been quietly shaping America's cities

https://news.yahoo.com/hidden-hand-uses-money-reform-101503866.html

Insurance companies turned 'police regulators' have been quietly shaping America's cities

Kit Ramgopal and Brenda Breslauer
July 19, 2020·12 min read

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By the summer of 2013, Niota's insurer, a Tennessee risk pool, was fed up. Preece said the insurer gave her a choice: remove the officers or lose coverage. And just like that, although criminal and civil cases against them were dismissed, two-thirds of Niota's police force had to be replaced.

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In recent years, a little-known player has been quietly reshaping America's smaller police departments: the insurance industry. Across the nation, city insurers have demonstrated surprising success in "policing the police," eliminating risky protocols, ousting police chiefs and even closing problematic departments altogether.

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Insurers can also push operational and personnel changes. In the Tennessee city of Rutledge, near Knoxville, pressure from an insurer led the mayor to fire a police chief facing assault charges. "I hate it for him, but my hands were tied," the mayor said.

…more long read…

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10. Who would have ever thought police reform

would come about because of pixel cameras and big insurance?

May I have some more please.