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And insurers doing their due diligence and charging based on potential for liability would go a long way to mitigating abuses. Best solution would be to simply
by WillAdams 5mo ago
And insurers doing their due diligence and charging based on potential for liability would go a long way to mitigating abuses.
Best solution would be to simply require licensing and conduct standards to be a police professional similar to that required for Registered Nurses.
- ubermonkey 5mo agoOr barbers.
- scarby2 5mo agoThe reason we have licencing for barbers is that existing barbers wanted it and persued regulatory solutions to protect their market. Existing police officers do not want this.
- staticautomatic 5mo agoMunicipal insurers already do that
- anigbrowl 5mo agoIt seems like municipalities just past the insurance costs onto taxpayers.
- georgeecollins 5mo agoThe problem is that if elected officials are not comfortable confronting police unions about their conduct then any cost you pass on to the union or the officers is potentially just passed on to tax payers. Not that I disagree with any idea to hold police more accountable. You just have to address the issue from more than one direction.
- WillAdams 5mo agoFor municipalities --- requiring that individual officers secure their own insurance would have far more effect on behaviour and standards.
- worik 5mo agoIs privatising ethics enforcement like this a good idea?
- HeyLaughingBoy 5mo agoAs opposed to doing nothing?
- solenoid0937 5mo agoAlternatively: Make the insurance come out of the collective pensions of the police department.
- Terr_ 5mo agoThe trick is to somehow ensure all the other officers (A) care about avoiding the cost while (B) are not motivated to collectively lie for one-another. It's not hard to imagine: Officer X does something bad through incompetence, Officer Y tells the truth about it, and then all the other officers take revenge on Y for "being a snitch" and "screwing our pensions." Once that pattern is in place, it continues even when Officer X is committing crimes, not just making mistakes.
- fellowniusmonk 5mo agoYes, it's a good idea to try it as an a/b test in a finite run of municipalities. Otherwise we are just doing the same things and expecting different results. Right now in many police abuse scenarios there is no system in place that is recognizable as a working ethical system, bringing policing into some ethical system, even if just financially self motivated is definitely an improvement over nothing.