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Cops: No Snarky Nor Positive Title

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dxmnkd316 said:
The world that exists after June 23, 2022
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I saw a news story not long ago that had a number of something like $110 million likely paid to people who sued cops in Minneapolis alone over the course of a year. You think Ben Crump keeps showing up here because he likes the food or weather?
 
SJHovey said:
I saw a news story not long ago that had a number of something like $110 million likely paid to people who sued cops in Minneapolis alone over the course of a year. You think Ben Crump keeps showing up here because he likes the food or weather?
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Is that the cops being sued or their employers? Generally civil settlements or verdicts are paid for by the public employer (or really more accurately, by taxpayers) and the public employer is the entity that is sued, not the individual cop. In most cases, qualified immunity prevents the individual from being the subject of the suit and the responsible party is the employing agency.

Fact is, the cops need to be the ones responsible. They want to be treated like the professionals they claim to be, buy malpractice insurance.
 
So OJ should not have been sued since he wasn't convicted of killing Nicole?

Its almost like there is different standards to the various courts...
 
WeAreNDHockey said:
Is that the cops being sued or their employers? Generally civil settlements or verdicts are paid for by the public employer (or really more accurately, by taxpayers) and the public employer is the entity that is sued, not the individual cop. In most cases, qualified immunity prevents the individual from being the subject of the suit and the responsible party is the employing agency.

Fact is, the cops need to be the ones responsible. They want to be treated like the professionals they claim to be, buy malpractice insurance.
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My guess is that in most instances it is both the individual cop or cops and the employer city/county that are named as defendants.
 
SJHovey said:
My guess is that in most instances it is both the individual cop or cops and the employer city/county that are named as defendants.
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They get named but it is the city/state that pays not them or the union. If cops pensions/funding were on the line they would kill a lot less Black People.
 
Let's face it - most cops are bastards. Assuming you follow the 10-70-20 rule of most organizations, the 5-10% who could effect genuine change often don't last long on the force due to internal resistance and not-so-subtle threats to their career path from the department brass and the FOP. The idea of "hero" cops is propped up by an excessive number of pro-cop movies and TV shows. Those cops are needles in a haystack of apathetic mediocrity - the 70% for whom it's just a steady job that didn't require much in the way of academics - and actual shitbirds, the worst 20% for whom it's about the power of the badge.
 
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