With incidents of serious injuries and deaths at the hands of
police, cities face the costs of settlements and jury verdicts.
Some of these cases mean millions of dollars paid. How do
cities pay for this? What does it mean to city budgets? And
how is it that someone is making money off of this? Our
guest is Brentin Mock, veteran journalist; he’ll discuss his
article “How Cities Offload the Cost of Police Brutality,”
which appeared in June in Bloomberg’s CityLab.com.