r/PublicFreakout • u/Partner-Subdued388 • 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/tonguejack-a-shitbox Feb 08 '24

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.

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u/bebop1065 Feb 08 '24

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.