{"id":3510,"date":"2025-01-04T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2025-01-04T21:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T02:03:38","slug":"police-lawsuits-cough-up-170k-to-citizens-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/police-lawsuits-cough-up-170k-to-citizens-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Lawsuits cough up 170k to citizens in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2024, Law Enforcement was sued twenty times, costing taxpayers around $170,000 to a number of plaintiffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Law Enforcement settled seven times with plaintiffs, and cases were awarded to the plaintiffs three times. Seven cases were dismissed and three cases are on-going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"min-height:910px\" id=\"datawrapper-vis-OsFwS\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" defer src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/OsFwS\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" data-target=\"#datawrapper-vis-OsFwS\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/OsFwS\/full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest payout in 2024 was by the The Blaine County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, who settled $70,000 for causing physical, emotional and punitive damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second largest payout in 2024 was by the State, representing a number of law enforcement agencies. Paying $60,000 in total to four plaintiffs ($15,000 each)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were five settlements with unknown awards settled behind closed doors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, this 2024 saw a 59% lawsuit success rate against Law Enforcement, the highest since 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2021, there have been 87 lawsuits, awarding a total of $1,058,220 to citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The largest award remains $640,000 in 2023-CV-050. Awarded by a deputy from the Blaine County Sheriff&#8217;s Office for committing Aggravated Attempted Second Degree Murder, Punitive Damages, Pain and Suffering and Nominal Damages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"min-height:910px\" id=\"datawrapper-vis-S7RvM\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" defer src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/S7RvM\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" data-target=\"#datawrapper-vis-S7RvM\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/datawrapper.dwcdn.net\/S7RvM\/full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, Law Enforcement was sued twenty times, costing taxpayers around $170,000 to a number of plaintiffs. Law Enforcement settled seven times with plaintiffs, and cases were awarded to the plaintiffs three times. Seven cases were dismissed and three cases are on-going. The largest payout in 2024 was by the The Blaine County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,4],"tags":[199],"ppma_author":[32],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-news","tag-2024-wrapped"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Harry Kennedy","author_link":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/author\/harrykennedy\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lawsuits_24-300x169.jpg","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lawsuits_24.jpg","coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/author\/harrykennedy\/","display_name":"Harry Kennedy"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/category\/news\/analysis\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Analysis<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Analysis<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">News<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/category\/news\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">2024 Wrapped<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">2024 Wrapped<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"3","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 1 year ago","modified":"Updated 1 year ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 4 January 2025","modified":"Updated on 4 January 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 4 January 2025 9:00 PM","modified":"Updated on 4 January 2025 9:03 PM"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":32,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"harrykennedy","display_name":"Harry Kennedy","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/d8415839b73033c93ae8a2cdd99efbab.png","url2x":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/d8415839b73033c93ae8a2cdd99efbab.png"},"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shout.newdayrp.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}