City Council tonight approved the settlement of a lawsuit related to a shooting incident six years ago involving a then city police officer.
Council approved awarding Ryan Dorr $600,000 in satisfaction of the suit that alleged the City was negligent in the supervision of the officer.
Council also approved the construction of the final installment of the downtown redevelopment project. Plans to rebuild the JB Wise lot and add two new access roads will begin in earnest next year.
Lawmakers also debated the proposed acquisition of a west side sewer line through eminent domain.
7 comments:
We were lucky it was only $600,000 If a real world attorney would have gotten ahold of it we would have had to take out a payment book. And if the victim were female, o my freakin' god.
were there any action against the former cop's supervisors or the hr dept?
or
do the taxpayers just pay up?
Most were promoted or retired.
One of the victims was female.
I don't think she sued though.
I doubt legal experts would put tolerable odds with either party in this case.
They allege the officer was not properly supervised? I have no question in my mind that he was not. Nor were his colleagues when they responded to his earlier "domestic" incident at crapplebees.
But it takes a very big jump to conclude that this lack of supervision lead to or allowed for the attempted assassination and kidnapping.
I would have settled six hears ago for 100k or 200k. It would have been cheaper and the right thing to do.
It is none of our business what disciplinary action was taken. But it would be nice to let everyone know what new measures are in place to check and balance the cities finest.
"It's none of your business" Come on now inaction on the part of his collegues led to this.
That is your opinion...if it was the opinion of the legal eagles, he would have gotten a lot more $$$$$
Regardless, employee discipline is a private matter.
It is not a private matter when it is public money used to pay off for the incompetence.
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