Cities pay millions of dollars each year to settle lawsuits against their lawsuits. Many are settled even though liability is doubtful because it cheaper to buy off the plaintiffs. But when we start talking real money (millions), settlement comes when exposure of the ugly details wants to be prevented. (Of course, the city always has a boilerplate denial of liability). The public should be "mad as hell" and demand the PD straighten up, but the settlements are rarely reported.
This case involves one of the most outrageous examples of police corruption. The Mafia used 2 NYPD detectives as informants, paying the $4,000 per month. They leaked the name of an informer, but the Mafia hit the wrong man. His family sued. The city delayed the case as long as it could. The judge noted that the killing would probably not have occurred if one of the detectives had been fired in the mid-80's when "he was caught passing confidential police records to a mobster."
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