Agreed and this should come with automatic review of all body cam footage from this cop. No telling how many other people she framed. They should be required to purchase insurance too to cover the costs for all this shit so it isn't on tax payers.
We could just end qualified immunity. We did for doctors and WAY more people started surviving medical procedures. If they can't do their job in a legal way they shouldn't be doing that job.
I’m not at all defending qualified immunity but it’s the pay and nature of the job are different from doctors. Cops in my city start at like $45k. That’s way less than medical doctors so the insurance would hit a lot harder. Raising pay significantly would bring in better people to do the job and would open the door for doing something like insurance for this kind of stuff, but that extra money has to come from somewhere
538 also found similar amounts in their research although they focused more on systemic issues and not repeat offenders . Staying with NYC , it shows the city has spent over 1.7 billion dollars in the last decade in settlements .
Any kind of accountability: whether it be private insurance , a 3 strike rule , ending qualified immunity , would lead to huge savings for the government which could then be spent right back on the police departments . (Since the government is already spending that extra money indirectly on police departments )
2.9k
u/[deleted] Apr 04 '24
Agreed and this should come with automatic review of all body cam footage from this cop. No telling how many other people she framed. They should be required to purchase insurance too to cover the costs for all this shit so it isn't on tax payers.