It's a shame that the taxpayers wind up paying the bills - most jurisdictions don't even count payments like that out of agency budgets.
It's about time that the officers themselves who screw up pay for it. No more qualified immunity, when they screw up (and their supervisors, training officers, chief of police, mayor) they pay for it.
If I screw up with a patient I'd get sued - personally. Even though I usually work at a government run facility (county, university hospital). You can be sure that my colleagues and I go out of our way not to make mistakes. Why not expect the same from law enforcement?
The number of 'accidental' raids will rapidly approach ZERO, once bubba looses his house and pickup.
Emergency Medicine - saving the world from themselves, one at a time.
"Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."
I make the ADL soil themselves. And that makes me very happy
