It should cost them money anyway for false arrest. The City should know better.
quite frankly, I’m getting damn sick of the cities, states and departments getting sued over crap like this. In the end, only the taxpayers suffer from higher taxes or limited services; there are no real serious incentives for things like this to be avoided... the employees are normally publicly reprimanded just for the sake of show and nothing else happens. Its about time to make people personally accountable and make them own their mistakes. I can guarantee you incidents like this would become a thing of the past. In this case, the arresting officers, their superiors, the DA and/or prosecutor should be held personally liable.