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> If you force officers to carry malpractice insurance... With all respect, this sounds like an awful idea. Doctors have malpractice insurance because their f
by ineptech 6y ago
> If you force officers to carry malpractice insurance...
With all respect, this sounds like an awful idea. Doctors have malpractice insurance because their field is an outlier in many ways. In almost every other profession, people who mess up get fired, not fined, and it works pretty well.
Given that that is largely not the case with police officers, it seems like we should try what works everywhere else before we try the one-off exception we've carved out for medicine.
- ineptech 6y agoDownvoters, what am I missing? I'm not saying cops shouldn't be held accountable, I'm saying malpractice is a convoluted way to go about it. The default method (getting fired when you screw up) isn't really done effectively today; while it might be hard to implement, developing some equivalent to malpractice for cops, and making it stick, sounds an order of magnitude harder.
- Person5478 6y agoThere's a certain class of people who believe the free market can solve all problems, and for these people, the way you inject said free market is by using insurance. The thing is, you're right about it being convoluted and hard. But when you believe the free market cures all ills, you reach for the hammer even if what you're looking at is a screw. Similar to the adage "everything's a dildo as long as you have the will", the other truism is "everything's a nail if your hammer is being enough". We really just need to fire bad cops, but that solution isn't tenable due to police unions. The real solution has nothing to do with the cops themselves and everything to do with busting the police unions.