The Legal Aid Society condemned the New York City Police Department for failing to discipline officers who amass lawsuits alleging misconduct, reports The Intercept.

An investigation conducted by Lehman College journalism students – which utilized Legal Aid’s CAPstat database – revealed that the City of New York paid out more than $30 million in 2019 to New Yorkers who filed cases alleging police misconduct in the Bronx alone.

“If it’s known that a particular officer at a precinct has five lawsuits pending, they’re not going to stage an intervention. What they’re going to do is assign his next bad arrest to a different officer,” she Jennvine Wong, a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society’s Cop Accountability Project.