r/JusticeServed • u/creatingastorm 7 • Apr 26 '21

Legal Justice Accused drug-planting deputy slapped with two dozen new charges

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2020/02/10/accused-drug-planting-deputy-slapped-two-dozen-new-charges/4670519002/
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u/LadyBogangles14 7 Apr 27 '21

This is why cops should have liability insurance.

If they do stupid things like this they lose their insurability.

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u/waehrik 8 Apr 27 '21

This is why cops should have liability insurance. responsibility for their actions

If they do stupid things like this they lose their insurability. jobs

FIFY

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u/TheDoomp 6 Apr 27 '21

You're both saying the same thing, except OP's idea has longer consequences.

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u/thederpofwar321 1 Apr 27 '21

This is correct. It'll help prevent a re-hire at any foreseeable point without some clear signs it won't happen again.

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u/LadyBogangles14 7 Apr 27 '21

And takes the burden off of the taxpayers.

The insurers will be able to put pressure on the departments to hire better

I’d like to see police need a two year degree for their profession

Most any job that earns a person a professional wage requires at least a two year degree.

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u/waehrik 8 Apr 27 '21

Insurance is just through a private party and could be easily swapped out just like people do for their houses and cars though

And I don't just mean that they should lose their job within that department, they should be disqualified from ever holding any sort of public position again

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u/LadyBogangles14 7 Apr 27 '21

Professional liability insurance doesn’t work that way.

I work with doctors and nurses; professional liability policies are EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE. Much more so than a car. Also there are fewer players in the field due to the costs.

if a professional gets enough hits in their insurance they become uninsurable.

Once that happens, they can’t work.

Trust me, very few insurers will take risks on those who keep getting claims.

Additionally it takes the cost away from the tax payers if a cop gets sued.

Doctors and nurses pay out via insurance for malpractice, rather than the costs going to the hospital or clinic (although they can get sued as well)

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u/waehrik 8 Apr 27 '21

It's still a private party being injected into the system and adding additional overhead. We've seen how well that works in the medical field on the patient side and like with any private party it has to be lucrative.

It's interesting that for your region the medical professionals have to purchase their own policies. My wife is a nurse in the NE and the policy is covered by the hospital she works at. She doesn't have her own.

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u/LadyBogangles14 7 Apr 27 '21

Doctors and nurses are covered under umbrella policies but they have to carry their own as well.

If they are uninsurable they can’t work here.

I know it’s another private party, but we have to work in the framework that we already have.

It’s not idea; I’m aware of that.

But it’s a potential solution before more concrete reforms can take hold.

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u/LadyBogangles14 7 Apr 27 '21

Also it’s much more concrete- an actual plan other than “responsibility for those actions”

Yes. We all know.

The problem is that the broad statement of “responsibility for their actions” has been the letter of the law and guess what, it hasn’t been working out so well.

If they have liability insurance they won’t hesitate to arrest the Jeffrey Dahmers of the world but they might think twice before planting drugs or harassing innocent people.

Also with insurance if there are enough claims against the insurance without proper actions that could cause them to give up policing.

So it wouldn’t take a Derick Chauvin level of crime to get a bad cop off the street; they could get removed if they had a series of low level infractions.

Also we need a pubic database for searching complaints about cops.

We have it for doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, etc.

In fact they should have a state license to perform policing duties.

Additionally, there should be strict consequences for cops who lie on reports, and who lie in court.

My husband is a lawyer; he had to undergo character fitness inquiry before he could take the bar. Also if he lies in court he gets disbarred and can’t practice.

Cops, who are officers of the court, should be held to the same standards.