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Originally Posted by 125shifter
I wonder how much a year local, state, and the fed pays out for lawsuits. It's must be close to a billion dollars.
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Rest assured, PG County is near the top of that list. You wouldn't believe the lawsuits those cops rack up.
FWIW, my old boss's wife was a local tv reporter and she got manhandled pretty harshly by some cops when she was in a news van following a local politician who was using cops as chauffeurs. Shes's a very petite lady and she was only armed with a microphone. I think they had three squad cars there after the the "chauffeur" called in that an officer was in trouble. And because of so many lawsuits on civil rights violations, PG County is required by the U.S. Dept. of Justice to have dash cameras in all their cars. Wouldn't you know it, they just couldn't find the tape of the incident with my boss's wife. Luckily, her cameraman left his camera rolling while they were cuffed, so some footage survived and got them a hefty payout when the lawsuit came.
A few years ago PG County had an off-duty cop follow a guy into VA, where the cop shot the guy in his own driveway in his SUV. Whether the dead guy was a criminal or not didn't mean his family wasn't gonna get big bucks in that lawsuit. The stories with that county are endless.