NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents the issue of whether a city may be liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) when the city has failed to train its police officers or has trained its police officers in a way that was so reckless or grossly negligent that future police misconduct is almost inevitable or substantially certain to result. We hold that under the circumstances of this case, it was not error to find the city liable for such a failure...
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