Las Vegas, Nevada

Police arrested Jason Dickman, who had bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, for a graffiti violation. While he was detained at the Clark County Detention Center, his cellmate choked and killed him in May 2021. Richard Dickman alleged that Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers failed to place his son in a unit for individuals with severe mental illness.

Of the total settlement amount, $1.8 million would be paid by the Police Department, and the remainder would be paid by their insurance company. In January 2021, police used explosives to blow King’s door off in an attempt to search her home for evidence about a man who did not live there. The suit alleged that the explosion seriously injured King, including permanent damage to her eyes, and caused lasting trauma for her and her daughter.

Henderson agreed to pay $25,000, and Las Vegas Metropolitan agreed to pay $65,000. In 2020, Henderson Police officers pulled over Brown, who was twenty-three years old at the time, for driving without his headlights on. The officers then arrested Brown because they believed he had an outstanding felony weapons warrant in Las Vegas. However, the actual subject of the warrant was a five-foot-eleven, forty-nine-year-old white man with a bushy beard and blue eyes, and Brown is a five-foot-seven Black man. Brown spent six days in two different detention facilities before officers recognized their mistake. The $90,000 settlement is near the $100,000 maximum that Nevada law allows when suing a government entity.

Between 2011 and 2013, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police paid more than $5 million in legal settlements. This includes a $1.7 million settlement awarded to the estate of Trevon Cole who was shot and killed by police during a raid; a $1 million settlement awarded to the relatives of Dustin Boone, who died due to a chokehold used by officers; and a $1.5 million settlement for Dwayne Jackson, who was wrongfully convicted and served four years in prison due to a DNA mix-up.