{"article":{"id":296419,"heading":"Baltimore police union balks at policy requiring officers to pay some legal damages themse","author":"police news idVer:5aa56dd2d82414437aeeb256eba","created":"2018-02-15 02:19:28","modified":"2018-02-15 02:19:28","last_modified":"Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:19:28","article":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/crime\/bs-md-ci-union-lawsuits-20180207-story.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/crime\/bs-md-ci-union-lawsuits-20180207-story.html<\/a> <br><br> Baltimore police union balks at policy requiring officers to pay some legal damages themselves <br>  <br> February 7, 2018 <br><br> Ian Duncan and Luke Broadwater     The Baltimore Sun <br><br> As many as nine Baltimore police officers could have to pay tens of thousands of dollars in damages after juries found they acted with &ldquo;actual malice&rdquo; in the course of making arrests &mdash; a development that prompted a warning from the police union and, in turn, a fiery response from the city&rsquo;s top lawyer. <br><br> The union asserted in a memo Tuesday that forcing officers to pay such damages themselves was a change in the city&rsquo;s policy. But both City Solicitor Andre Davis and his predecessor said Wednesday the policy has not changed and officers have potentially been on the hook for decades in such cases.\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/crime\/bs-md-ci-union-lawsuits-20180207-story.html","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Baltimore police union balks at policy requiring officers to pay some legal damages themselves","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2018\/02\/296419.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}