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jazzypants 2 hours ago

They could just buy insurance. You know, like doctors, lawyers, and a wide variety of other professionals that deal with liabilities in their field.

Regardless, the police get sued all the time anyways. It's just that the burden currently falls on the taxpayers.

drbscl an hour ago | parent [-]

> They could just buy insurance. > the police get sued all the time anyways. It's just that the burden currently falls on the taxpayers.

I fail to see how this would change anything other than increasing taxpayer costs further in the form of insurance profit margin.

switchbak 15 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Change the incentives, you change the behaviour. Granted, this might have lots of unintended consequences, many of them bad.

vajrabum 24 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Make the police officer like the Doctor pay for their own insurance.

infinite_spin 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Malpractice insurance might increase the cost of policing, but I'd wager the malpractice itself is costing tax payers even more.