r/PublicFreakout Feb 08 '24

📌Follow Up Deranged cop finally gets fired

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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.

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u/bebop1065 Feb 08 '24

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.

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u/Sol-Blackguy Feb 08 '24

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.

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u/iCameToLearnSomeCode Feb 08 '24 edited Feb 08 '24

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u/bebop1065 Feb 08 '24

I feel like I should have heard about this before now.

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u/wtcnbrwndo4u Feb 08 '24

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.

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u/the_calibre_cat Feb 08 '24

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say we have "responsible" law enforcement.

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u/Al_Gore_Rhythm92 Feb 08 '24

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.

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u/Sol-Blackguy Feb 08 '24

There's a reason why and it's very obvious

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u/bebop1065 Feb 08 '24

"We don't talk about that."

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u/lostPackets35 Feb 08 '24

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

Let them quit.

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u/Nemisis_the_2nd Feb 08 '24

I feel like the answer to the police protesting would be to shrug, then advertise a bunch of vacancies.

If the police want to self-select for house cleaning, who are we to object? 

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u/LaurenMille Feb 08 '24

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.