EVT1
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Post by EVT1 on Jun 2, 2015 21:22:38 GMT -5
www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2015/06/01/floyd-dent-inkster-beating-tax-settlement/28328993/
Inkster property owners will soon face a one-time tax hit to cover a settlement reached between the city and a man beaten by a police officer during a traffic stop.
City Treasurer Mark Stuhldreher said Inkster will levy 6.45 mills on summer tax bills to pay Floyd Dent $1,377,500.
That means property owners will shell out about $178.67 on a home with a market value of $55,400, the median value of a home in Inkster, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates.
This is what happens when a department hires a thug booted out of another department nicknamed "Robocop" and ignores all of the baggage. So much for background checks 
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2015 21:42:53 GMT -5
$1.4M settlement - was the guy that was beaten permanently injured? I guess he only gets a fraction of that, but it seems like a lot.
What I find strange in our legal system is that awards like that will be levied where it is perceived it is payable, like big corporations and cities. Who really pays in the end is a little more clear in this case. What a hardship to place on every resident for a decision they did not participate in or cause.
Why do cities not have liability insurance? Are police forces no longer insurable because of all the incidents? Why aren't the individuals involved in the hiring accountable for their decision and lapse in judgment/investigation if this officer had a bad record? I also thought that city councils and the like carried liability insurance.
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EVT1
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Post by EVT1 on Jun 2, 2015 23:36:50 GMT -5
That's the big question- this one cop was fired, was involved in numerous lawsuits, involved in cases of planting evidence, civil rights abuses, etc. He should not have been hired- yet the people that hired him, and himself are immune to lawsuits because of their positions. Just like Arpaio in AZ. The citizens have to pay for it all.
I am sure he will get at least 66% of that- close enough to a million. They beat his ass and planted drugs on him, and the cop is facing felony charges (again). IMO the cop and whomever allowed this asshole to be hired should be personally responsible because any HR person worth a shit would have tossed his application in the trash. |
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 3, 2015 6:49:37 GMT -5
I was reading a story about an AZ city that had a huge number of police shootings (compared to other cities) - mostly on the poor/nonwhite side of town, and several instances of police shooting unarmed mentally ill people.
The city was chronically short staffed of police officers because their department had such a bad reputation within the police community. They always had a lot of openings and had to advertise as far away as NYC to try to find qualified officers. The only officers willing to work for them were either the new ones right out of the academy or ones that screwed up at another city and got fired.
So it was a kind of ugly self repeating cycle - hire the crappy cops, crappy cops do something crappy, further damages the reputation of the department, good cops refuse to come work with them, leaving only crappy cops to hire. The only way to really fix that kind of problem, whether it's with a police department or an underperforming company, is to clear house and bring in all new employees, but that takes money.
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