Payouts for lawsuits against the NYPD topped $121 million in 2022, nearly doubling the amount spent to settle claims of officer misconduct just two years earlier.
“The city continues to pay out astronomical amounts for NYPD misconduct,” said Jennvine Wong, an attorney with the Legal Aid Society’s Cop Accountability Project. “What that means is that the city is not taking NYPD misconduct and accountability for that misconduct seriously enough.”
That doesn’t include payouts settled through the city comptroller’s office before someone files a formal lawsuit, which exceeded $183 million in 2022. Both the number of settlements and the dollar amount for payouts from the comptroller’s office have declined in recent years, from a high of more than $356 million spent on 4,072 settlements in 2017.
Settling a lawsuit allows the city and the police department to close a case without admitting wrongdoing. While settlements sometimes require the NYPD to implement policy changes, such as the landmarkcase that upended the department’s stop-and-frisk practices, they are separate from the police department’s disciplinary process. Being named in a lawsuit only results in punishment if the NYPD believes that an officer violated policy.
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