How about if we determine that the officer acted unlawfully we just take the entire settlement out of the cops pay including any pay he may get from the state or indeed any other employer under the same terms we take money owed to the IRS.
Cost the state a million dollars because you abused or killed somebody congrats you will now be poor for the rest of your life.
1/3 of 1% of the US works in law enforcement its absurd for the other 99.66% of us to vote in bad terms for everyone unless 70% of us believe those bad terms apply to someone else like a minority.
Okay so this is a genuinely terrible idea because then nobody would be a police officer. Malpractice insurance exists specifically because doctors will make mistakes that harm their patients in hugely expensive ways either in the costs to fix the problem or suffering their patient now has to live with. Everyone makes mistakes at work and so this scheme just produces a workforce with a high luck stat.
Look, I have no sympathy for police officers who intentionally do harm but this isn’t the way to weed them out.
The law already strongly protects cops who make mistakes.
To continue the malpractice analogy a doctor who failed to order a test that ought to have been ordered given the patients symptoms and fails to diagnose a condition leading to the patients preventable death would be a victim of malpractice.
The current and suggested practice is for the government to provide what amounts to errors and omissions coverage similar to professional liability insurance to all police officers.
What isn't normally covered by malpractice insurance is reckless, illegal, or intentional acts.
I'm saying that cops ought to be legally liable for the classes of acts that wouldn't normally be covered by professional insurance. Planting drugs, recklessly shooting someone without ensuring that they actually have a gun not a cell phone in their hand, assaulting someone because you can.
Hey how about using a flimsy pretext to search someone's anus for drugs!
All things that haven happened in recent years!
Reckless or illegal acts are almost certainly uninsurable at any reasonable price because protection for such acts would ultimately be very expensive because in a world where your union keeps you from being held accountable and the law keeps you from being sued personally people would do them.
Malpractice insurance for cops would probably be overkill for actually reasonable mistakes and amount to enriching insurers while it would be useless to solve more serious issues.
It is an interesting solution searching for a viable problem.
Cost the state a million dollars because you abused or killed somebody congrats you will now be poor for the rest of your life.
1/3 of 1% of the US works in law enforcement its absurd for the other 99.66% of us to vote in bad terms for everyone unless 70% of us believe those bad terms apply to someone else like a minority.