Chicago taxpayers have paid nearly 300 million dollars over a 6 year period because of repeated misconduct by some police officers.

>> In all 272 officers were named in at least 2 lawsuits that were settled by Chicago officials or resulted in a jury verdict paid by taxpayers.

That is in spite of efforts to rein in cops who repeatedly violate the rules.

Reporters Jared, her techie and header.

Sharon join us now with what they found.

Jared, how big of a problem is the city facing from repeated allegations of police misconduct that result in lawsuits, cases involving repeat officers cost taxpayers.

75.8 million dollars.

That's about.

>> 85% of the total from 2024. and more broadly, about 60% of the nearly half a billion dollar total over the past 6 years during the consent decree.

And it's this totals kind of allow us to look at the high cost of a vehicle pursuits and wrongful convictions.

And while many officers in these groups have retired in some of the older cases, about 9 of the officers still made our remain on the force 8 of them still in Chicago and one located in suburban Oswego.

Okay, Heather, you focused on one officer in particular just that receipt only white.

Well, he has been named in in number of lawsuits over the past 6 years that have cost the city a half a million dollars, including one.

>> That was tied to the death of an Indianapolis man who he and another officer shot to death amid.

>> A brawl in Mount Greenwood that exacerbated racial tensions.

Now officer tree.

See, although he is still paid by taxpayers actually hasn't worked a single shift as a police officer since 2018.

He has been on long-term disability.

Earning 75% of his salary.

The number of officers who are on long-term disability or medical leave has become a source of frustration for City Council members who are struggling to close a deficit of 1.0 1 5 billion dollars next year.

They say they're simply too many officers on disability or on leave for that to continue.

Jerry, this is the 4th time that you've looked at the data and analyze its cost to taxpayers.

Is the city being transparent about the cost of lawsuits that named the same officers repeatedly >> he the impact of police misconduct is evident.

The city is spoken for years about the risk that they're trying mitigate a number of these cases.

The publication of this data is a move towards transparency in the city deserves a small pat on the back for this.

But we really have to dig up some of the specific names of officers and badge name so that we can identify everybody and this kind of a makes it so that researchers and reporters like me have to track this information down to sort of unravel these mysteries.

You know, it's going to be important to kind of identify some of these risk moving forward for the city.

>> Heather White, don't city officials step in though and, you know, put a stop to those officers who are already costing taxpayers money in the city, stopped him from doing it Well, the federal court order known as the consent decree requires the city to do just that.

Not only are they supposed to be tracking lawsuits that named the same officer over and over again.

They're supposed to be an early warning system that gives department's leaders the heads up that some officers are having trouble following the rules might need.

Some retraining might need to be taken off the street.

Despite years of effort, there's no