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California law enforcement could choose to look the other way, but it's a statistical certainty that if there's money to be made through civil suits, there will
by rectang 6y ago
California law enforcement could choose to look the other way, but it's a statistical certainty that if there's money to be made through civil suits, there will be plenty of litigation. How do you get around that?
- dmurray 6y agoThe police are important in civil suits too. Arguably their main function in a civilised society is that you can call them when you get in a car accident and they'll write up an official report for the insurance company. If they don't spend their time writing detailed reports on the causes of fires, that at least pushes the balance of power away from the plaintiff. I don't know if this is realistic. But we have a pretty litigious society these days in Ireland too - behind the US, but ahead of almost everywhere else - and I can't find any evidence of a successful civil suit for starting a wildfire. I did find this which says there are practically no criminal cases: https://www.thejournal.ie/wildfires-donegal-legislation-4606187-Apr2019/ https://www.thejournal.ie/wildfires-donegal-legislation-4606...