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this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2026
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The easiest way to get this accomplished politically is to create insurance for them. Have the departments cover the base insurance rate and premium increases from settlements increase that officers insurance which (s)he has to pay out of their pay. If the insurance is unaffordable then you can no longer be a police.
Exactly, that is not a cure all but it's a doable fix that could be implemented even in today's political environment with a little work. Every cop gets the amount of their liability insurance it would cost if they weren't a prick, and they pay the premium.
Every cop gets a score already by liability insurance that departments carry, so it would just be shifting those costs, and would involve renegotiating their union contracts.
I'd love that, but I don't think (at least here in the US) that there will ever be a meaningful change to how killer cops are managed legally, especially after there was zero accountability for Uvalde.
Single events do not define a whole country. We get the changes we fight (vote) for.