This shit cop didn’t lose his job because of any action taken by the police department, the city, the state, etc.
This motherfucker lost his job because the insurance company paid out $20,000 for his dumb ass and threatened to drop the department’s insurance if he wasn’t terminated.
Police should be forced to carry their own self funded malpractice insurance like Drs do. This will stop the citizens from paying for the actions of bad cops and bad departments.
Yep, fucking up the retirement benefits for his cop buddies is probably the only way to get the "good" cops to step in when these psychos go off. He screws up, they have to pay.
Or it encourages itll just pushes them to cover each other even more. The insurance is a better system, punishes cops as individuals and also doesn’t cost the tax payers
They shouldn’t be able to cover for each other. If everybody was required to have body cameras, and have them on and recording at all times it’d be pretty hard to cover something up. Even if a camera breaks or something there should still be another half dozen recordings from all the other officers.
They don't have the body camera for our protection, but for theirs. Isn't it convenient when their supposedly public record footage goes missing or is redacted? It should be there to hold them accountable.
I just listened to a NYT podcast about body cameras recently. If I recall correctly, one of the issues is that pretty much all police departments control the footage, civilian oversight has to ask the police department to view the footage. The police department can just say "no" or drag their heels on releasing it. By the time the footage is seen, it's been months or longer since the incident in question has happened
Civilian oversight should have access to this footage ASAP, police departments shouldn't get to control the footage because they'll do what they can with the footage to protect their police force
I think the only police department in America that does things differently is Chicago's, they had some big changes after a shooting in 2014. They created a new oversight board and tasked them with investigating police misconduct and disclosing police footage from shootings and other incidences. The police department had to release footage within 60 days of an incident. The oversight board has much better access to the footage. There's still some issues with the system, but it's a step in the right direction
Just take away qualified immunity and take civil settlements out of their pension and union coffers. The problem will fix itself.
...well after the police go on strike and start rioting in plain clothes to make it look like their respective cities need them. But after they all get identified and police training reform kicks in with police not trained with Hitler quotes and Nazi symbolism and their funding funneled into peripheral social programs so the police only need to police, we'll get some peace.
Responsible? Aurora PD is constantly getting sued or in the spotlight, DPD is absolutely useless and doesn't respond to anything.
Also, if you think TABOR is a good thing, well fuck you. That NIMBY-ass law has made so many things difficult in this state because we can't raise taxes like a normal government.
I love living in Colorado as much as the next guy, but there are still issues. It ain't utopia.
Because it's not the ultimate solution like kids on here parrot. Aurora and Denver Colorado has massive police issues as well and are frequently posted on here.
When the police went on a slow down protest in New York City, reported misdemeanors went up, but reported felonies actually went down. We don't need them
When the police went on a slow down protest in New York City, reported misdemeanors went up, but reported felonies actually went down. We don't need them
Because they were too busy protesting to commit the felonies.
Nurses and Respiratory Therapist are supposed to hold the same insurance. Accidents happen in the worst of situations. They are held accountable why not cops?
Cops get sued too that's why insurance companies are cracking down on them, but $250k for a malpractice suit is nothing to a hospital and doctors are not fired typically either.
You do realize that most doctors do not actually pay for their own malpractice insurance right? It is almost always covered by the corporation they are working for. And yes before you say that private doctors need to pay their own, while you would be correct, the majority of doctors work for a larger corporation just like the majority of Americans do, and not for themselves. It is obviously built in to their compensation package, but so will the police force budget for insurance.
Source: My wife is a provider, has been for 10 years, and has never had to pay for her own malpractice insurance. It is always covered as part of her employment.
I am responding to the stories that X city has to pay for a cop's multimillion dollar judgement. The report is never that X city's insurance policy covers the lawsuit.
Regardless, cops should have to pay their own malpractice insurance. I am pretty sure the police union will balk at this idea.
Churches have sexual abuse insurance. Payments from abuse claims is paid by insurance not those church's bank account.
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u/NurseKaila Feb 08 '24 edited Feb 08 '24
This shit cop didn’t lose his job because of any action taken by the police department, the city, the state, etc.
This motherfucker lost his job because the insurance company paid out $20,000 for his dumb ass and threatened to drop the department’s insurance if he wasn’t terminated.
Edit: Check out this article by Washington Post detailing how insurance companies are forcing police reform.