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New York Police Behaving Badly Cost City $35 Million

By Conaway and Strickler

The nydailynews.com website reported in an article on March 12th that New York City controller William Thompson released a report that the city paid out $35.2 million in settlements last year a 40 percent jump from just the previous year. Police procedures, such as false arrests and excessive force, are costing the taxpayers heavily in a time when all efforts and sacrifices must be made to use taxpayer money for critical services. It is also putting a great burden in defendants needing to seek experienced New York federal offense lawyers. The payout number is only going to grow as a record number of lawsuits were filed last year against the NYPD for wrongful convictions involving drug crimes in New York and other criminal offenses. Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said, ?These are remarkable increases...continue to full post

Full post as published by Georgia Criminal Defense Blog on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).