Here’s something new. I wonder if this scandal, and the size of it, is finally forcing a change on the city’s part to defend itself and its budget from the police.
This appears to be only about the punitive part of awards.
Police union president Gene Ryan said in a message to union members that the city had “generally supported” officers in the past by paying punitive damages as well as compensatory damages awarded in civil jury trials. But he said new city solicitor Andre Davis, a former federal judge who joined the city last year, has changed that policy.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-union-lawsuits-20180207-story.html
ETA: The story changed a lot since I read it earlier. The new version is more about how the union is unhappy. The old version is below.
