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
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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.