A Reporter Won $850,000 After a Police Raid. Nobody Won.
An $850,000 settlement for the reporter whose home was raided by police sounds like justice. It isn’t. The officials who ordered the raid pay nothing personally β taxpayers do. When the penalty for violating constitutional rights is a municipal budget line item, accountability becomes a subsidy for impunity. The real question isn’t whether justice was served, but what stops the next raid. The answer: nothing.