{"id":14833,"date":"2024-09-26T11:47:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T11:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14833"},"modified":"2024-09-26T11:47:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T11:47:18","slug":"5-years-of-chicago-police-misconduct-cost-taxpayers-almost-400-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14833","title":{"rendered":"5 Years of Chicago Police Misconduct Cost Taxpayers Almost $400 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Over the past five years, Chicago taxpayers have forked over nearly $400 million to resolve lawsuits stemming from officer misconduct, according to a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.wttw.com\/2024\/08\/12\/repeated-police-misconduct-200-officers-cost-chicago-taxpayers-1643m-over-5-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">analysis<\/a>&nbsp;of city data. While around 1,300 police officers were named in the lawsuits, just 200 were responsible for more than 40 percent of the total cost.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com wp-block-embed-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"RQpJyBM8EU\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/08\/12\/5-years-of-chicago-police-misconduct-cost-taxpayers-almost-400-million\/\">5 Years of Chicago Police Misconduct Cost Taxpayers Almost $400 Million<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;5 Years of Chicago Police Misconduct Cost Taxpayers Almost $400 Million&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/08\/12\/5-years-of-chicago-police-misconduct-cost-taxpayers-almost-400-million\/embed\/#?secret=V6mR9x0MPr#?secret=RQpJyBM8EU\" data-secret=\"RQpJyBM8EU\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Over the past five years, Chicago taxpayers have forked over nearly $400 million to resolve lawsuits stemming from officer misconduct, according to a new analysis of city data. While around 1,300 police officers were named in the lawsuits, just 200 were responsible for more than 40 percent of the total cost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/08\/12\/5-years-of-chicago-police-misconduct-cost-taxpayers-almost-400-million\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1501,280,1619,285],"class_list":["post-14833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-chicago","tag-criminal-justice","tag-lawsuit","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14834,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14833\/revisions\/14834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}