NYC spent $114M on police misconduct lawsuits last year
The city paid out $114.5 million in police misconduct lawsuits last year — nearly double what it paid in 2020, according to an analysis by the Legal Aid Society. Such lawsuits have cost taxpayers more than half a billion dollars since 2018, the analysis showed.
The NYPD referred Gothamist to the city’s law department for this story. Department spokesperson Nicholas Paolucci said in a statement that many of the recent payouts are connected to cases from the 1980s and 1990s. He said in cases where past wrongdoing is discovered, the city aims to settle the cases quickly.
In a 2013 case, which the city settled for almost $1.7 million last year, a plainclothes officer was accused of pointing his gun at a man without identifying himself as a police officer,. The lawsuit also claimed that the man did not match the description of the person the officers were chasing. Two officers beat the man and pistol whipped him on the head, and he received staples on his skull, the lawsuit claimed.
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