Criminal (In)justice

#120 How Cities Pay for Police Brutality

07.14.2020 - By David HarrisPlay

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With incidents of serious injuries and deaths at the hands of police, cities face the costs of settlements and jury verdicts. Some of these cases mean millions of dollars paid. How do cities pay for this? What does it mean to city budgets? And how is it that someone is making money off of this? Our guest is Brentin Mock, veteran journalist; he’ll discuss his article “How Cities Offload the Cost of Police Brutality,” which appeared in June in Bloomberg’s CityLab.com.

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