Large towns in North Jersey, such as Paramus, have been hit with a decade’s worth of “discrimination and whistle-blower lawsuits,” which, according to attorneys, “cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of dollars”.
And the lawsuits are just ridiculous, from a $300,000 payout to a police chief who was fired for exposing coked-up councilmen, to $1.9 million to a first female police chief for “her claim that male officers had made sexually suggestive comments, hung obscene cartoons on the walls and stashed motel keys in her mailbox over more than 15 year”, to $6 million for a corrupt police chief, to the piece d’resistance, $217,000 to the “prankster” on the force for a harassment suit.
Cities wonder why they’re broke, especially with the fact that “60 percent of the employment-practices liability lawsuits filed by the state’s public employees come from police officers”. Either there’s some really corrupt leadership or some hypersensitive officers, and neither bode well for North Jersey.
And of course, cities are bankrupted and taxpayers are left footing the bill.
