Dad died after medics waited outside his home, lawsuit says. His son called 911 twice
news.yahoo.com
His family’s lawsuit filed against Seattle has been settled for over $1.8 million.

If cops are going to maintain a database of ‘dangerous’ addresses, and tell paramedics not to respond without a police escort, the police department must also ☆maintain☆ the database.

They did not.

The family got a $1,860,000 settlement, but should’ve gotten more.

  • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 months ago

    Because it’s in America and prevention of issues isn’t in our culture. We’d rather save the money and pretend the “1%” chance event isn’t inevitable

    • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
      47·
      9 months ago

      I live in not-America at the moment and let be the first to say Americans give way more thought to prevention and do-it-right-the-first-time than most anybody else.