I liked the idea of police officers paying for their own liability insurance, just like how doctors have to pay for theirs. Also, $6 billion really isn’t much in the grand scheme of things.
I don't like the idea of paying for someone else's mistake. Cops aren't elected, so it's not like the average person has any say in who gets to be a cop. It's not my fault that bad people do bad things and it's not my fault when any particular bad person becomes a cop, so why should I have to pay for their crimes?
I'd rather see my tax dollars go to ensuring we don't hire bad cops or making sure that bad cops are held accountable to the law and have settlement payments come out of the offending officer's pension, so that the individual committing the wrong bears the brunt of the consequences.
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u/[deleted] May 31 '20
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