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We don’t need to create a private insurance market for yet another part of American life. Other countries have real oversight bodies with teeth that build publi
by noodlesUK 6y ago
We don’t need to create a private insurance market for yet another part of American life. Other countries have real oversight bodies with teeth that build public trust. It’s important that justice is done in these cases of abuse, and it also needs to be seen to be done by the public, which builds trust in the institutions of state.
- seibelj 6y agoThe point of insurance is they have to pay for it personally. If the government pays for insurance and also pays for penalties, we are in the same situation we are today.
- syshum 6y agoUnions would never allow that, and I highly doubt people on HN will be in support for weakening Public employee unions which I think should be completely abolished //side note, FDR agreed.... which is ironic given that most people that support Public Employee unions think we need a new new deal FDR style
- drdeca 6y agowhy [strikethrough]would[/strikethrough] [edit:do] you think people here would oppose weakening (or abolishing) police unions?
- brainfish 6y agoRegulatory capture is extremely common in American life, and many of our current policing issues can arguably be attributed in some large part to overly powerful police unions. So to me this sounds like a lip-service-non-solution waiting to happen.
- Guest42 6y agoInsurance exists for nearly everything. The difference in this particular scenario is the party responsibility for the liability.
- pasabagi 6y agoDo they? I'm only familiar with the IPCC in the UK, and they are basically worthless. Germany, for example, doesn't even have something like the IPCC. Are there any examples of working police oversight bodies?