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If you look at the 20 major metropolitan areas around the country,

over the past five years, tax payers have spent over $2 billion

with civil settlements for police misconduct.

$2 billion is an incredible number.

Now, there are more misconduct settlements in rural areas

and the suburbs of late, meaning there have been more police killings

in the suburbs in rural areas than in some of these major metropolitan areas.

So, it's larger numbers than $2 billion.

It's astronomical across the country.

And tax payers are overwhelmingly paying it because part of what happens

that $27 million doesn't deter it because police departments and police officers don't fill it.

Due to qualified immunity, that leads to that settlement money

being put onto the general funds budget.

I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast April 2nd, 2021.

The Derek Chauvin trial is underway in Minnesota

and the city of Minneapolis last week settled with the family of George Floyd for $27 million.

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