The City Can't Fire Its Own Cops
Sarah Mirk
Portland Mercury
September 25, 2012
Who's in charge of deciding whether police officers can be fired? In Portland, not the police commissioner.
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Jury awards $11.5M to family of slain Puerto Rican
Associated Press
November 9, 2012
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A jury in Puerto Rico has awarded $11.5 million in damages to the family of an unarmed man who was shot to death by police in 2007
The family of Miguel Caceres celebrated Friday’s verdict.
Three officers were charged in Caceres’ killing, which was caught on video.
Officer Javier Pagan Cruz was convicted of first-degree murder in 2008 and is serving 109 years in prison. The two other officers, Carlos Sustache Sustache and Zulma Diaz de Leon, were acquitted in 2011 of being accessories to murder.
City Is No Longer Reporting the Costs of Its Settlements of Federal Cases
Colin Moynihan
New York Times
December 9, 2012
The New York City Law Department has quietly adopted a practice of withholding from public filings how much it pays to settle most federal court cases filed against the city or its employees.