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Denver spent $14.5 million to settle to settle lawsuits against police and sheriff in just 3 years

This week’s approval of a $1 million settlement with the parents of Jessica Hernandez was just the latest in a string of payouts on large legal claims involving the Denver police and sheriff’s departments — a sum that has hit $14.5 million in the last three years. Go back to 2004, and the city has paid nearly $28 million on police and jail claims, according to the latest review by The Denver Post of data provided by the Denver city attorney’s office.

 

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