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Letters to the Editor: LAPD needs to find a way to both call out abuses and rein in massive payouts

Letters to the Editor: LAPD needs to find a way to both call out abuses and rein in massive payouts

'The story that I am missing in all of this is how lawyers, juries and judges justify the massive payouts in some of these cases,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

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