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Malpractice insurance should be required for LEOs.

• JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > Malpractice insurance should be required for LEOs Why this weird workaround? Just define where personal liability begins and ends, and maintain a national record of officers terminated for cause or under suspicion of misconduct. The police unions will just negotiate the insurance be paid by the city, anyway.
  • Two4 3y ago
    I think you may be right about how it would pan out, but ideally you'd either start with a stipend that covers the base rate for your insurance with any increase in premiums beyond coming out of pocket, or averaging premiums across union members to create a powerful economic incentive to keep members in line. I'm not a fan of the latter, because US cops seem tribalistic, and would likely see an increase in premiums as an us vs them issue rather than an internal issue. Pricing bad individuals out of the profession directly is better. I do also sometimes think about using other law enforcement agencies that overlap in some (but not all) responsibilities to create some sort of incentive structure where if they catch each other breaking the law, it's much more beneficial to screw each other over than be complicit