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This can be fixed simply: require police and the federal government to cover legal fees when successfully recovering stolen property, require them to additional
by olliej 3y ago
This can be fixed simply: require police and the federal government to cover legal fees when successfully recovering stolen property, require them to additionally pay penalties to the victims that match the late payment penalties for fines and taxes.
Finally, require all the, ahem, proceeds of this theft to be set aside for paying the above.
That removes the profit motive and adds substantial downside to bogus theft.
- staplers 3y agoCounterpoint: That would just mean taxpayers would pay more for police gross negligence (which is already a problem).
- pg_1234 3y agoTake it out of police pension funds.
- olliej 3y agoTax payers already pay for police incompetence and malice, but at least now they wouldn't be able to steal property and then use that to pay for new toys, overtime, bonuses, etc and would have to operate inside their actual budget (rather than using theft to supplement their income). Obviously making police overtime and bonus pools be the source of funds for lawsuit payouts might improve things - the unwillingness of police to actually report illegal behaviour by their coworkers might be reduced when that behaviour lowers their income.