Santa Ana taxpayers have paid out over $5 million since 2019 in lawsuits and claims from over 50 police car crashes – some of which stemmed from vehicle pursuits.
Three of those accidents involved off duty officers driving take home police cars to or from work resulting in a total of $1.2 million settlement payments, according to a presentation on police vehicle pursuit statistics given to police oversight commissioners last week.
It’s an amount that led police oversight commissioners Danny Vega and Evangeline Gawronski to question why officers were taking police cars home…