How any police agency/city/state/etc has any money and can stay operational when they are sued repeatedly and have to pay out millions upon millions of dollars for each settlement? How is it sustainable?

Question

ie… police wrongdoing cases… wrongfully jailed… corruption then sued etc… etc.

In: Economics

Answer 1

You can be sued, doesn’t mean you will win the lawsuit. There are a lot of protections in place for police agencies, if you’re curious just do a google search for ‘qualified immunity’. Also of note, when they do actually lose a lawsuit, the police doesn’t pay it out, the state does.