A teenager who video-recorded his mother’s forceful arrest by Louisiana sheriff’s deputies in 2020 has been awarded $185,000 by a federal jury in a lawsuit filed over one deputy’s attempt to interfere with the recording.
I guess I’m just not happy with the idea of some insurance company taking the hit. It still doesn’t hit cops directly enough even if their rates go up. Start making the union pay and maybe the union will make their members get in line.
The advantage of having officers carry malpractice insurance is the same as it is with doctors. Eventually, the premiums to insure a bad officer get so high, no one is willing to pay them. Or, they simply uninsurable, as no company is willing to take on the risk. It also means there will be a large and politically connected organization (insurance companies) which have a financial interest in collecting data on bad police officers. Sure, that should be the government’s job, but since we know that’s not happening, why not exploit corporate greed for a positive thing?
We say ACAB because any high school kid knows what lunch table has the bullies. When it’s matters of life/death/power imbalances, there is a moral obligation to sound the alarm on that table.
But no cops ever seem to call out the psychopaths with guns amongst them. And in a position of power, that is just as bad.
They’d pay in higher insurance. Or by not hiring people who make their insurance go up.
But yeah, they should foot the bill somehow, too.
I guess I’m just not happy with the idea of some insurance company taking the hit. It still doesn’t hit cops directly enough even if their rates go up. Start making the union pay and maybe the union will make their members get in line.
The advantage of having officers carry malpractice insurance is the same as it is with doctors. Eventually, the premiums to insure a bad officer get so high, no one is willing to pay them. Or, they simply uninsurable, as no company is willing to take on the risk. It also means there will be a large and politically connected organization (insurance companies) which have a financial interest in collecting data on bad police officers. Sure, that should be the government’s job, but since we know that’s not happening, why not exploit corporate greed for a positive thing?
Take it out of their pension fund.
Oh now that I like.
ACAB - all cops are broke.
Insurance companies screw over everyone. That’s what they do. I’m okay with them sharing.
If they paid in being more cautious about hiring shitty cops I’d call that a win… while ACAB, some are definitely much bigger assholes.
We say ACAB because any high school kid knows what lunch table has the bullies. When it’s matters of life/death/power imbalances, there is a moral obligation to sound the alarm on that table.
But no cops ever seem to call out the psychopaths with guns amongst them. And in a position of power, that is just as bad.
One bad apple spoils the whole bunch.