The law ends where liability begins. Everyone thinks the banks are a secret cabal that runs the world but I assure you it's actually the insurance companies that pull the strings behind the scenes.
Qualified immunity be damned, I guarantee you the city leaders of Brooklyn Center got a call from a very senior person at whoever insures their police telling them to either give them charges or find another provider.
All departments I've ever worked with are self-insured with the tax payer on the hook ultimately. That's the one difference between governments and businesses is that governments can ultimately pass the buck literally back to the people...
Part of that is a municipality by municipality thing. Minneapolis is considering making INDIVIDUAL officers to get personal law enforcement liability as one of the reforms; they'd basically be like doctors in that sense. Doctors have to get personal liability for practicing medicine.
This would effectively outsource the vetting of police officers to insurance companies, because if you couldn't find a company willing to insure you, you can't take the job.
And I've worked in insurance for two decades.
The law ends where liability begins. Everyone thinks the banks are a secret cabal that runs the world but I assure you it's actually the insurance companies that pull the strings behind the scenes.
Qualified immunity be damned, I guarantee you the city leaders of Brooklyn Center got a call from a very senior person at whoever insures their police telling them to either give them charges or find another provider.
All departments I've ever worked with are self-insured with the tax payer on the hook ultimately. That's the one difference between governments and businesses is that governments can ultimately pass the buck literally back to the people...
Part of that is a municipality by municipality thing. Minneapolis is considering making INDIVIDUAL officers to get personal law enforcement liability as one of the reforms; they'd basically be like doctors in that sense. Doctors have to get personal liability for practicing medicine.
This would effectively outsource the vetting of police officers to insurance companies, because if you couldn't find a company willing to insure you, you can't take the job.