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

Those payments don’t come out of the police departments’ budget. The city/county/state pay out settlements from their general funds, which can significantly impact the finances of smaller governments. The financial strain may help encourage the elected officials to put pressure on the police departments to reform themselves.