Police officers continue to violently abuse their power and continue to cost cities billions, with a “b”, of dollars over the course of years. A Washington Post report stated that between 2012-2022, police departments settled nearly 40,000 officer misconduct claims that totaled $3.2 billion. Not only is the brutality criminal, immoral, and often bigoted, but on a more superficial level, it’s bad for cities and taxpayers.
According to Open Vallejo (OV), Nakia Porter, a Black woman, was beaten unconscious by Solano County Sheriff’s deputies Dalton McCampbell and Lisa McDowell after she and her father pulled over their car to switch seats. The subsequent lawsuit that Porter filed said that, without legal justification, she was handcuffed, thrown to the ground, knocked unconscious, and taken to jail. As a result of the Aug. 6, 2020, incident, the city of Vallejo agreed to a $17 million settlement, which is three times more than the biggest settlement the city has ever issued.
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