Much like corporate fines, these settlements have been chalked up to “just the cost of doing business.” They haven’t served as real deterrents. In the past decade, Chicago has paid out a half a billion dollars and New York close to $2 billion. The staggering $300 million annual police settlements in the US is only ~1% of the total money budgeted to police in this country.
The Marshall Project has been trying to determine what impact, if any, the settlements have on policing
