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Hmmmm..., Instead of taking money from police pensions, we should start dipping into the revenues allocated for the welfare system AND the prison food system - every time a dirtbag commits a crime...
So anyone on welfare is automatically a "dirtbag"?
.....However, every police officer should be required to obtain an insurance policy. Every incident, the premium is increased. No different than auto insurance. Those officers having high premiums, might not be able to afford their profession.
Bravo. Put the costs on the heads where the costs to society are incurred.
This simply means that areas with lots of crime, will lose all their police. Free market decides it. The communities will find out what it's like without any police to take the endless abuse while trying to fight endless crime. Not such a bad idea at all. It forces the communities address the real problem and change their chanting from
"Hands UP, Don't Shoot"
to
"Pants Up, Don't Loot"
Places with decent people, i.e. little crime, will see little change because insurance rates will be low there.
Along with the wall of false accusations and demands for preferential treatment?
I know you didn't mean police officers, yet your statement applies to them perfectly. They falsely accuse people of crimes and they have garnered laws that give a higher penalty to people for harming them. Meanwhile they have a license to kill.
In the "old days," public officers had to post a substantial cash bond, as a surety on good behavior - and to be used to indemnify any victims.
It had to be THEIR own money, laid on the line - not the faceless taxpayer.
Yep.. lets all have a system where we pay for everyone elses wrongs
So.. OP. is it then fair to have your retirement.. which is your money.. at risk because of something your co-wrker did today...
Thats is the basis of insurance.. and why there is such a concept
There are already civil remedies for what you are asking
Bad cop gets fired.. did a henious act outside of his duties under color of authority
he still gets whacked.. ciminally.. and with civil judgements ..
Would you go to work tomorrow knowing that with a moral certainty that at some point n your career someone else will screw up and you will be directly and personally be put at risk?
Somehow I dont think you would stay very long
BTW many cash strapped cities are going to self insurance.. so they have a vested interest to have "clean" departments
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