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· 10/20/1950

Slavens v. Commonwealth

Citations

  • 313 Ky. 871
  • 233 S.W.2d 423
  • 1950 Ky. LEXIS 969

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  • finding that PPD’s knowledge of police shootings, as found by the DOJ Report, could establish deliberate indifference
  • finding that the DOJ Report \could lead a reasonable jury to determine that the City of Philadelphia knew about a pattern of violations of constitutional rights and...was deliberately indifferent to the inadequacies of the PPD’s deadly force training\
  • denying the City’s motion for summary judgment, concluding that the DOJ Report presented sufficient evidence such that a reasonable jury could find that the City had a custom of failing to train its police officers on the use of deadly force
  • DOJ Report, combined with other evidence, established that the relevant policymaker was deliberately indifferent to inadequacies in PPD’s training programs

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