Comments on How Much Do SPD Settlements Really Cost?

You'd also want to add in the cost of all the time of the cops and managers spent in talking to the lawyers and all the time of the review panels and cop supervisors dealing with discipline.

If you can get the actual time sheets of the law firm, that would make for interesting reading.

FYI, anything involving legal representation of individual officers will be attorney/client privileged, so you're SOL there.

You really ought to give me a call on this one, Jonah.

@2 but couldn't we get the legal costs to the department as a whole considering it is a public agency. we don't need case by case break-downs, just an aggregate total divided by the number of complaints acted on.