You’ve really hit the most salient point here. The payouts and making cops financially liable is all good discourse, but they really buried the lede. If Chicago has payed out almost 3/4 of a Billion in 23 years to people cops have framed, think of just how systemic this corruption is. I mean, I imagine some payouts might be pretty big, but you’re talking hundreds, probably thousands of incidents! That makes it pretty much part of the job if it’s happening that frequently.
You’ve really hit the most salient point here. The payouts and making cops financially liable is all good discourse, but they really buried the lede. If Chicago has payed out almost 3/4 of a Billion in 23 years to people cops have framed, think of just how systemic this corruption is. I mean, I imagine some payouts might be pretty big, but you’re talking hundreds, probably thousands of incidents! That makes it pretty much part of the job if it’s happening that frequently.