J1 (@AcidBrainWash)

Cities are now Declaring Bankruptcy so they don't have to pay for police criminal acts. Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy To cut payouts to 10–13% or even one cent on the dollar. A pending Supreme Court case regarding Purdue Pharma could further enable cities to seek permanent liability shields for third parties, such as officers, potentially chilling civil rights enforcement. San Bernardino 2012–2017 Plan included a third-party release shielding current and former officers from personal liability. Claimants against the city and officers received one penny on the dollar. The city faced 109 lawsuits seeking ~$19 million in personal injury claims. Vallejo, CA 2008 The Ninth Circuit in Deocampo v. Potts (2016) held the city's discharge did not extend to individual officers' personal liability, but the city's own liability was erased. The court called the outcome "remarkable" and "extraordinary": "a municipality may erase its own liability to persons whom it and its officers have willfully and maliciously deprived of their civil rights—and even their lives—by filing for bankruptcy."