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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-19T02:30:55.480Z",
  "site": "https://justacarguy.blogspot.com",
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    "https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/safety-improvements-proposed-years-ago-site-fatal-usd-student-crash/4038453/",
    "https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/san-diego-police-lawsuit-payouts-top-116-million-over-10-years/4038308/"
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 2016, the city developed a Comprehensive Active Transportation Strategy for Linda Vista that recommended installing a high-visibility ladder-style crosswalk and a pedestrian-activated high-intensity signal beacon near a staircase that serves as a shortcut to and from the University of San Diego campus\n\n\n\n\nThe estimated cost of the improvements was $111,000.\n\n\n\n\nIn order to save money, the improvement to increase pedestrian safety next to a major university was ignored.\n\n\n\n\nThe damn city should be sued for ignoring it's duty, and responsibility to safety, after it conducted an investigation of how to prevent pedestrian deaths, and was informed that a crosswalk overpass walking bridge would get students off the road\n\n\n\n\nHell, the university is also liable IMHO for not insisting that the city build the walking bridge\n\n\n\n\nAnd HOW does a cop in a cop car STRIKE and kill a person? Probably using a cell phone or the unit laptop... which the state decided wasn't \"unsafe\" for cops, just illegally unsafe for all the rest of us.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSo, yeah, the city of San Diego, the SDPD, and USD, I'd say they all ought to line up across the court room from the plaintiff, and try to weasel out of the jury's focus.\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/safety-improvements-proposed-years-ago-site-fatal-usd-student-crash/4038453/\n\n\n\n\nrelated news item,\n\n\n\n\na city council committee meeting Wednesday, which highlighted the $116 million cost of settlements and judgements involving SDPD since fiscal year 2017.\n\n\n\n\nIn fiscal year 2026 alone, SDPD settlements and judgements reached a record $42 million.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\na $10 million settlement for the life of Arabella McCormack, **11** , who died of **severe abuse** in August 2022.\n“An **SDPD officer** was alleged to have visited the home, and contributed to the abuse by directly **supplying** **wooden paddles** , not paddle, paddles to the family,”\n\n$30 million went to the family of Konoa Wilson, the **16-year-old shot and killed** by a **San Diego police** officer last year while **running from** gunfire.\n\n\n\n\nA cop shot Konoa in the back.\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/san-diego-police-lawsuit-payouts-top-116-million-over-10-years/4038308/\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSDPD Annual Budget is 32% of San Diego's total General Fund expenditures.\n\n\n\n\nSan Diego's police misconduct settlement payouts are roughly 1/16th the SDPD budget\n\n\n\n\nThe San Diego Police Department (SDPD) operates on an annual General Fund budget of $703.5 million,\n\n\n\n\npolice-related settlements and judgments have average about $42.5 million annually\n\n\n\n\nACLU data indicates that SDPD payouts are roughly 15 million higher than the settlements paid by all other city departments combined.",
  "title": "I regretfully report that a USD student has died, killed by a marked cop car, 130 am, on Linda Vista Road between Goshen and Brunner streets.",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-19T02:48:42.708Z"
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