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Shouldn’t government officials and law enforcement and such be held to higher standards than the general population not the other way around?
by Madmallard 3y ago
Shouldn’t government officials and law enforcement and such be held to higher standards than the general population not the other way around?
- xp84 3y agoThe officials themselves aren't in question. These proceedings only concern whether TSA itself (aka the government) can be sued. That's what the 'soverign immunity' part is about. This case isn't related at all to whether the employee can be prosecuted, sued, whatever. You could make the case either way imho, pro of having immunity is that our tax dollars ideally wouldn't be spent to try to make up for some stupid thing some bad TSA agent did. Con is that ideally knowing TSA could be sued would make whoever manages the budget of TSA much more afraid to keep poorly-trained or unstable people on their staff, and/or to train and supervise them better.
- 123pie123 3y agoI suspect it more about having the right processes in place to stop this from happening eg always having two people to hand, having all agents wear body cams etc.. I don't think education or training would stop a oppuntunist from raping someone