Study finds millions paid out from 2010 to 2020 for police misconduct in Minnesota

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https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/study-finds-160-million-paid-out-from-2010-to-2020-for-police-misconduct-in-minnesota/

A new report found more than $160 million* has been shelled out by Minnesota cities and counties for 495 police misconduct cases from 2010 to 2020.

Of the 71 jurisdictions that reported payouts, Minneapolis — which sparked international outrage when police officers killed George Floyd in 2020 — accounted for 177 of the 495 payouts, for a total of $136 million. (The total doesn’t include the 2021 payout to Floyd’s family, totaling $27 million.)

The city of Minneapolis disputes the findings. A city spokesman said “the figure in the Hamline report is inaccurate.” The city says the total payouts between 2010-2020 were $36,535,708, or roughly $100 million less than cited in the report, which was written by Hamline University professor David Schultz.

Minneapolis has made other significant payouts since 2020, including $1.5 million to Jaleel Stallings for the beating he took after mistakenly firing at MPD officers.

Bloomington had the next most in the study, at 126 payouts, followed by St. Paul with 47.

Also lol:

Over 40% of the incidents lacked detail explaining the type of misconduct — and nearly 89% of those happened in Minneapolis.

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1. Every state should track and report this figure annually. nt