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I'd rather just see the bad cop be fired. I feel that if we were to penalize their pension fund, their union and local government would just find some back doo
by SkipperCat 4y ago
I'd rather just see the bad cop be fired. I feel that if we were to penalize their pension fund, their union and local government would just find some back door to refund the money. Better to just terminate the bad cops and be done with them.
- sneak 4y agoUhh no, the penalty for breaking the law in our society is not "you lose your job". Please stop treating police as exempt from the law.
- SkipperCat 4y agoIf you look at the top of the thread, you'll see I said "when they commit crimes (which they seem to do often and while on the job) they should go to jail". But the debate is should there be collective punishment for bad cops or should they be terminated. I favor termination. One main reason I prefer terminating bad cops vs hitting their pensions is that bad behavior is less of a cost impact to the bad cop than losing their job. A cop does something wrong, maybe it will impact their retirement pension by a small percentage. That's not a big disincentive. Loosing their job, that's a big disincentive. Another way to go about this is to have cops purchase mandatory insurance. Any bad behavior would be paid by their insurance and if they make too big an error, they become un-insurable and thus can no longer be law enforcement.