Chicago police misconduct costs keep soaring with proposed $35 million in deals

Chicago police misconduct costs keep soaring with proposed $35 million in deals – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo

The City Council and Mayor Brandon Johnson have already approved a record $206 million in such deals this year, an amount that towers over both the budgeted $82.6 million and year-end totals from the past. That sum includes $19 million to be paid by the city’s insurers, but not another $120 million from two court verdicts the city plans to contest.

Chicago police misconduct costs keep soaring with proposed $35 million in deals

CHICAGO — Chicago’s record spending on police misconduct settlements is likely to climb higher this month with another $35.2 million in proposed deals, most tied to decades-old wrongful conviction cases featuring disgraced detectives.

City faces $35.2M in police abuse settlements, 2 tied to disgraced ex-cops Jon Burge, Reynaldo Guevara

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s hard-fought 2025 budget set aside $82 million to cover settlements and judgments tied to allegations of police abuse. That amount was exhausted by April.Now two of the most notorious bad actors in the history of the Chicago Police Department will help put the city — which ended last year with a zero balance in its operating checkbook — $35.2 million deeper into a hole.Four police abuse settlements are on the agenda when t…

"Settlement tsunami": Chicago spends more than double city budget on police misconduct settlements - The Chicago Reporter

The City of Chicago is searching for financial solutions amidst hundreds of pending police misconduct cases, spending more than double the $82 million budget. Eight years ago, police burst down the door of the Mendez family home unannounced, pointing guns at Hester and Gilbert Mendez, and their sons Peter and Jack (who were 9 and […] The post “Settlement tsunami”: Chicago spends more than double city budget on police misconduct settlements appea…