broke city of chicago needs $100 million to settle police brutality settlements

[SmarterthanYou]

Training and oversight would be significantly cheaper than paying out settlements.

allowing law enforcement to operate unchecked affects everyone, and yes it is a reflection of the entity that employs them.

this would imply that government entities actually want their cops to be held accountable, when it would appear that they actually want them violent and brutal to keep most of the population cowed and submissive.

 

[cawacko]

Really, Breitfart and Blaze in one post?

Besides, what's the big issue, cities issue bonds, the State of Kansas bond debt is over currently over $2 billion due to their adopting austerity measures back in 2010, didn't see Brietfart nor Blaze running out to over their plight

I'll try this one more time because I am honestly intrigued. My wife asks me often "where did that come from" about things I say so I'm not being condescending here.

How in a thread about police violence does it occur to you think about supposed austerity measures in Kansas?

 

[SmarterthanYou]

I'll try this one more time because I am honestly intrigued. My wife asks me often "where did that come from" about things I say so I'm not being condescending here.

How in a thread about police violence does it occur to you think about supposed austerity measures in Kansas?

this must be why......

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article209422629.html

Sex scandal in sheriff's office has some mulling future of Jackson County government

Two days before the public learned the full scope of the scandalous allegations against Sheriff Mike Sharp — kinky sex, big raises for his girlfriend, costly conflicts of interest — Jackson County legislators were briefed privately at the downtown Kansas City Courthouse.

Greg Grounds was stunned.

"The first question I asked was what are the specifics for removal," said Grounds, one of two Republicans on the nine-member governing body.

No process was specified in the county charter to remove the elected sheriff. Had Sharp refused to step down and not announced his resignation Wednesday, it would have fallen to yet another elected official, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker or Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, to take Sharp to court and hope a judge agreed that he was unfit for office.

And so Grounds added yet another provision to the growing list of proposed charter changes that he hopes voters will approve in August to help fix elements of what he and others see as an increasingly dysfunctional county government.

"Most people would say at this point we don't have good government," Grounds said.

Until recently, most people — including the more than 600,000 who live and pay taxes there — gave Jackson County government little to no thought at all, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

When a county government is adequately performing its necessary but mundane functions — collecting taxes, playing a supporting role in the judicial system, providing basic services to unincorporated areas — it's like the plumbing in your house. Until the pipes leak, you take it for granted.

But over the last four or five years, concerns about Jackson County government have grown over what began as a trickle of scandals and eventually devolved into a torrent.

First came the 2013 reassessment debacle, followed by millions of dollars in legal settlements for discrimination and sexual harassment in the assessment department and others, then in 2015 the first signs of what turned out to be a full-blown crisis at the county jail. Unsanitary conditions, rapes and guards beating up inmates have led to lawsuits and prosecutions.

 

[Nordberg]

The cop who did the deed should have to pay part of the settlement. No reason they walk off. They did it . They should pay 10 percent or have to have insurance to cover.