Not to mention lawyers have to work with the police fairly regularly. They see fostering an adversarial relationship as bad for them.
So while the police may have broken the law, caused damages, etc, and whatever, other police aren't going to pursue it and neither will most district attorneys.
There’s also a significant personal risk. The NYPD has been very casual about abusing their powers before and anyone fighting it that hard might find it necessary to leave the city if they didn’t want 100% enforcement targeting them personally.
> NYPD has been very casual about abusing their powers before and anyone fighting it that hard might find it necessary to leave the city
That was a cop collecting evidence on fellow cops. It's obviously criminal. But the NYPD is sued all the time, and I haven't seen evidence of them systematically acting vindictively against either plaintiffs nor their attorneys.
> But the NYPD is sued all the time, and I haven't seen evidence of them systematically acting vindictively against either plaintiffs nor their attorneys.
That'd be a full time job. Over the last 15 years, NYC has been paying out a million dollars per WEEK for NYPD abuse of power lawsuits alone.
