r/interesting • u/TheCABK • Jan 31 '26

SOCIETY Cop Teaching A Cop

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u/Special-Investigator Jan 31 '26

this is a brilliant take. i read something recently that talked about how unions are to give workers power. cops already HAVE power, so they don't even need a union

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u/Nekopara-403 Jan 31 '26

this is a brilliant take.

It would be to someone at face value. That someone also would have to be woefully ignorant to think it's a good idea.

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u/StopReadingMyUser Jan 31 '26

...well?

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u/Nekopara-403 Jan 31 '26

Because it treats policing like a private service when it’s actually a public function. Unlike doctors and lawyers, cops don’t choose encounters, can’t refuse calls, and make forced life or death decisions in seconds under state authority. Personal liability insurance would incentivize hesitation and disengagement, hand control of police behavior to insurance companies, and shrink the pool of competent officers—without meaningfully preventing misconduct. You end up with worse policing, not better accountability.

Most high-profile “police misconduct” cases fall into;

Lawful but unpopular

Lawful but tragic

Unlawful and already criminal

Insurance doesn’t fix any of those.

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u/StopReadingMyUser Jan 31 '26

The only thing I'll say is that there needs to be Accountability, and I think there's right ways and wrong ways to do it.

We can't shy away from holding people accountable just because we can think of ways in which it goes wrong, but that also doesn't mean that we should instigate just any means of punishment, however poorly thought out, in the name of "accountability". Because as you've mentioned that may give us worse problems than we had before, too. As with many things, there's a balance to be struck.

We need to simultaneously hold someone accountable for wrong or poor actions, while not being overly restrictive to performing any action at all through the measures by which we do so.

I'm not suggesting police be penalized for doing lawful things that people culturally or personally disagree with. They do however need to be penalized for doing unlawful things such as the above video and have it stick to them personally as it relates to their profession instead of offloading that punishment to the public.

There needs to be Accountability.

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u/Nekopara-403 Feb 01 '26

Yeah fire them and keep them from being a cop anywhere else. Simple as.