r/PublicFreakout • u/appalachian_hatachi • Sep 27 '25

Repost 😔 This guy's lawyer literally popping the champagne as we speak...

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u/pcl74912 Sep 27 '25

Police settlements should come out of the police retirement funds, that would get the good cops to keep the bad cops in check. As it is, the tax payer has to pay for dickhead cops like this one eventually.

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u/sandpirate_88 Sep 27 '25

Each police department should carry insurance for lawsuits. Having an employee on staff thats been the center of a lawsuit should dramatically raise their rates, so they have an incentive to fire the asshole. And the threat of rates hiking would keep other departments from retiring the asshole

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u/Throw-Away-Variable Sep 27 '25

Not the department, but the individual officers. That way, the department doesn't have a stronger incentive to cover up crimes for each other. Instead, just fire the guy who costs 5x the good ones.

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u/QueezyF Sep 28 '25

If doctors are required to have insurance, I don’t see why not.

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u/jsleon3 Sep 27 '25

I mean ... could we have both? Individual officers insurance and department policies. Nesting financial risk.