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Originally Posted by Xist
Many times the police have needed to pay settlements after wrongful arrest accusations were substantiated.!
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The police - that is, the actual officers involved - rarely if ever have to pay a settlement for damages. It is the taxpayers who are stuck with paying such judgements. The worst that is likely to happen to the officers is that they're fired (and that's rare). More likely they're "punished" with a few weeks of paid vacation.