re: City of Louisville agrees to settlement as high as $12 million in Breonna Taylor shooting

I'm pretty sure it is for the city.

The second largest was the $8.5 million dollar settlement to Edwin Chandler, after LMPD (SHOCKER) suppressed witness statements and ignored physical evidence in his case. He ended up being convicted of a murder he didn't commit and served 9 years for it.

WLKY article on that lawsuit

I'm ok with that. But it depends on who replaces him. I don't want David James. He's utterly useless.

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She was a garbage criminal.

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She is 100% responsible for what happened.

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WHY WONT YOU SAY HER NAME? SAY IT!

So as part of the settlement, the city has also agreed to the following police reforms. According the family's lawyer, they would not agree to the financial settlement unless significant police reforms were included:

Community Related Police Programs

Housing Credit Program: Metro says will establish a housing credit program to incentivize officers to live within a Qualified Census Tract as their primary residence. It will review programs established in Atlanta, Chicago, San Diego, and DC as models for one in Louisville. The initiative will provide officers with a pathway to home ownership and improve community connections.

Retain Social Workers: Metro commits to retaining social workers at LMPD for officer support and assistance on dispatched runs warranting a social worker’s presence. Metro is researching best practices and social worker qualifications to create an effective program. Metro plans to initially fund this new program through forfeiture funds by contracting for the services of social workers.

Community Volunteering: Metro will encourage LMPD officers to volunteer 2 hours a pay period, during their regular work shift, at an organization in the community they serve.

Search Warrant Reforms

LMPD has amended its Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 8.1 on search warrants to require a commanding officer to review and approve all search warrants, affidavits in support of search warrants, and risk matrixes before an officer seeks judicial approval for a search warrant. SOP 8.1 has been updated concerning the simultaneous execution of search warrants at multiple locations. The commanding officer of the unit initiating the warrants will act as the overall Incident Commander with a separate on-scene Commanding Officer at each warrant location who will serve as the Deputy Incident Commander for that location. SOP 8.1 has been updated to require the presence of EMS units and/or paramedics for forced entry search warrants.

Police Accountability Reforms

Currency Seizures: LMPD has modified SOP 11.3 with additional protocols for money seized as evidence. The additional policy expressly states that officers must have their body cameras activated for the entire seizure process, which includes counting, placing and sealing the currency into the currency evidence bag before its transport to the property room.

IAPro: Metro will implement the early warning system of IAPro that tracks all use of force incidents, citizen complaints, investigations, and other key factors. Metro is committed to identifying any police officer in need of additional assistance or training. The reactivation of this system will require additional personnel to monitor and administer the program. As part of its top-to-bottom review, Hillard Heintze will evaluate criteria of the early warning system and recommend any needed improvements. Metro plans for the early warning system to be also monitored through the Office of Inspector General once this office is established.

Drug testing: All officers are subject to random testing. Metro agrees to include in 2021 negotiations with the FOP an expansion of the random drug testing to ensure all officers are randomly tested at least once a year.
Personnel files: Metro will negotiate with the FOP in 2021 to expand on the records it may maintain in police officers’ personnel files.

PSU Investigations: Metro has updated its PSU investigation process regarding cases when a police officer separates from LMPD before the completion of his or her investigation. The police officer’s personnel file will include a PSU closing letter that states the Chief’s findings based on the evidence that exists in the file at the time of the separation from LMPD, if sufficient evidence exists in the record to make such a determination or that insufficient evidence exists to make a finding. If the nature of the complaint is significant enough to have reasonably resulted in the suspension of a police officer, the PSU investigation will continue gathering evidence to evaluate if additional officers or problems exist that require the PSU investigation continue.

WLKY article on the reforms included in the settlement

I don't see anything in those reforms that should be considered unreasonable for good cops.

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Didn't the local post master come out and say that he not anyone from his office confirmed that the dealers packages were going there? He pretty much Ed said the cops lied about that.

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That doesn’t mean it was the wrong house...she was involved and there is clear evidence of that. She got his mail, she had gone to known drug houses, she had assisted him in other ways. They weren’t there to arrest her, but there was over whelming evidence he may have been there.

The entire wrong house and no-knock warrant BS does not apply here. The police had cause to be there and they knocked even though they didn’t have to.

The police were serving a warrant and were shot at, they returned fire and she was hit. Unfortunate situation but she was involved enough with a criminal drug operation that she isn’t innocent in all of this mess.

Just say you don’t like black people, jumping through all these hoops to be a boot licker must be tiring

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ambulance chaser attorney

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I'll give him credit.
Pretending she was an EMT was a smart move.

She was only for a short time in 2016.

I wonder if that whole dead body in trunk of car she rented impacted that?