Crime & Safety
Echo Park Lead Officer Gets $4 Million From the City
Officer Bobby Hill got the check in September after winning a harassment trial in 2008, says the Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Police Department officers sue the city all the time. According to the Los Angeles Times, from 2005 to 2010, they filed suits more than 250 times. The city's lost about 45 of those cases and paid verdicts worth about $18 million dollars.
One involves Bobby Hill, the longtime Echo Park lead officer at the LAPD's Northeast Division. Hill claimed he was harrassed for speaking out against a superior for using racial slurs and embezzling when he worked at the LAPD's Newton Division.
According to the Times, Hill got a check for more than $4 million in September, which would seem to make him one of the big winners in all of this. Hill won a jury trial in 2008 in the case.
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