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KCPD settles another lawsuit involving same police officer

Dec. 19, 2024

“I think its important any time a lawsuit is settled with law enforcement. Somebody has to police the police and apparently its not KCPD who is going to police their own employees,” Picerno said.

Missouri county to pay $1.2 million to settle lawsuit over inmate restraint chair death

JP Law

Dec. 12, 2023

Missouri’s second-largest county will pay a $1.2 million settlement to the parents of a 21-year-old man with mental health concerns who, according to a lawsuit, screamed “I can’t breathe” as he was subdued by jail staff before dying in a restraint chair.

We’re Naming the Kansas City Police Officer Who Brutalized Mack Nelson. Here’s Why.

JP Law

July 23, 2023

Public safety officials are held to a higher standard than your ordinary citizen. And taxpayers are on the hook

Newton County, Neosho Officials to Pay $630,000 to Mother, Children of Joplin Man Who Died in County Jail

JPLaw

Oct. 18, 2021

The mother and children of a former Joplin resident who died June 29, 2018 in the Newton County Jail will receive a