A lawsuit a week
That's the Portland police bureau these days. Here's the latest flushing of tax money down the toilet due to an abuse of power.
But hey, it's only $27,500 -- that couldn't feed many hungry people or fill too many potholes, could it? Besides, the Chasse verdict could be a hundred times that.
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Here's a question: when the City loses a big lawsuit, where does that money come from? The general fund? Insurance? I'm not asking to provoke anything, I just genuinely have no idea.
Posted by Dave J. | October 6, 2009 10:49 AM
Portland is self-insured for most of this stuff. But, that just means there is a pot of general $$ set aside to cover the foreseeable unforeseeable. How big that pot needs to be used to be a source of conflict. The conflict was resolved with a change in "organizational culture" to a more "cooperative and action oriented" flavor.
In the best of all possible worlds, our elected City Auditor would make sure that all these numbers were selected transparently and according to the best professional standards.
Somewhere there is a number for what is being reserved for the Chasse case. Whatever it is, it isn't enough.
Posted by dyspeptic | October 6, 2009 11:21 AM
The best idea is to make the PPB pay claims like this out of its own budget -- maybe have to sell some armored vehicles. You want to get Rosie to put some serious attention onto getting the thugs off the force? Make it hit her in the budget.
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | October 6, 2009 12:07 PM
I will say it again.... why don't the feds actually look at PPS and its union with a view towards RICO?
Posted by LucsAdvo | October 7, 2009 6:46 AM
At least he was indicted.
Posted by Kevin | October 7, 2009 9:43 AM