…which gets paid to the teen by the taxpayers rather than the police union, which should be paying.
Should be the cop’s personal liability insurance since they were breaking the law.
I would rather make the police union responsible. It’s the only union Republicans care about and the only union that exists in part to oppress union organizers.
The second the police union has to start footing the bill, you’ll suddenly see a whole lot of cops being fired and accountability for behavior materialize out of the ether.
You’ll also see a whole lot of violence in the streets, too, to be clear. Cause if theres one things cops just cant fucking stand, its being held accountable, and they’ll burn the entire system down to prevent it…or, failing that, out of spite.
Good. Fire the thugs and lock them up
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.
Yeah, the taxpayers should be completely off the hook!
Now, how do we best ignore the overwhelming support taxpayers have for police, police brutality, and for supporting corrupt sheriffs that regularly get reelected?
Overwhelming support for police does not mean that taxpayers should be on the hook when they fuck up.
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I get your point, I just disagree that taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for all the black people we’ve killed and the families we’ve destroyed.
I’m not a fan of the continuous buck passing that seems foundational to American culture and I don’t believe “making police unions pay for it” will solve a “problem” that most Americans support. If I had to guess, cops would likely just rob from more black and brown people to make up for the loss
There’s also overwhelming support for doctors, who carry personal liability insurance and don’t get bailed out by the taxpayers when they screw up.
I don’t really see the comparison you’re trying to make. My point wasn’t based solely on the support they receive. Feel free to ask any questions if you’d like to understand what I’m saying/trying to say.
That said, I think insurance makes a bit more sense, but as I responded to another comment, I don’t think it makes sense for Americans to use taxpayer money to train a racist agency to brutalize black and brown (and increasingly poor white) people for profit and then wash its hands of all the blood that results and pretend it’s just the cops that are the bad guys, like they weren’t trained to act the exact way they behave
Why should the police union be held responsible?
if a steel-worker breaks a machine, do you also wanna hold the union responsible?
no, this was this single specific person. He should be held reliable, noone else. Collective punishment is not a good thing, you know?
Because the unions shield the cops and fund their legal defenses and because that single person is almost never held responsible.
Also, I don’t know what you think corporal punishment is, but it isn’t that.
*collective Punishment. Speech to text does funny things sometimes.
So if a worker somewhere breaks something, every single employee should be held responsible for that?
When “good” cops start actually working against the cops committing atrocities, I’ll worry about collective punishment for cops.
“A teen said”
“filmed” interaction.
Seems like there’s more than “a teen’s” word to go on. There’s video evidence.
Where’s my fucking money?
I got physically restrained and jailed after filming the police who searched my house without authorisation or a warrant.
But I live in Finland where everyone is a bootlicker and no-one cares about the cops being authoritarian as fuck.
“Personal freedom” is probably considered some kind of an exotic dessert by most Finns.
