Comment does the police even INVESTIGATE anymore? (Score 1) 62
It seems like the police and the prosecutors aren't doing their jobs - they're relying on false data, not confirming, no investigating, no actual detective work... just cursory glances, arrests of people and a let the courts sort it out mentality... if the defendants have enough money for a decent lawyer, they'll be found innocent... most can't afford to be in jail for a month while things get sorted out and plead guilty.
Each of these lawsuit payouts should come out of the police departments budgets. That might incentivize them to actually do the work and stop being lazy or maybe prioritize policing vs militarization of the police. An idea, the payouts should be automatically doubled- one portion to victims, one portion to the public lawyers doing the actual defending. But then the funding might get cut just because they'll see these payouts as a substitute or worse push a perverse incentive for them to let these BS cases continue for larger payouts eventually.