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MindPilot

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4. I wonder what the total annual payout is nationwide?

Reply to damnedifIknow (Original post)

Fri Sep 25, 2015, 12:51 PM

Sep 2015

How many kids could go to colleges, how many people could have healthcare, how many bridges could get fixed or any other of the myriad of services we "can't afford" would we have if municipalities could just keep their police from beating and killing innocent people?

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Honolulu paid $167,500 to two hikers who said they were brutalized by officers [View all] damnedifIknow Sep 2015 OP

Should have been more AuntPatsy Sep 2015 #1

These settlements are not an effective deterrent to police brutality. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2015 #2

make the union pay for acts that are illegal and/or unauthorized. the union protects criminals, let msongs Sep 2015 #3

I wonder what the total annual payout is nationwide? MindPilot Sep 2015 #4

Tens, maybe hundreds, of millions a year. Comrade Grumpy Sep 2015 #5

Good point. Taxpayers are subsidizing DirkGently Sep 2015 #6

For every cop fuck up take 100k out of the Chiefs pension Jesus Malverde Sep 2015 #7