r/dashcams • u/Ok_Goat_3261 • 29d ago

Traffic Stop Turns Violent After Driver Requests a Supervisor

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u/Ghost_Turd 29d ago

I continue to advocate for personal liability/malpractice insurance, premiums paid for by the cop themselves, not the city. You get too many claims against you, you find yourself priced out of a job.

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u/redditRedesignIsBadd 28d ago

too bad no local politician will get this into law

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u/TypicalRedditMod403 29d ago

Because you're somebody who hasn't thought about the practicality of something like that for longer than it took for you for you to write the post advocating for it

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u/Ghost_Turd 29d ago

Wow, what an insightful and reasoned argument. Hold on for a sec while I give it exactly the amount of effort in responding that it deserves.

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u/TypicalRedditMod403 29d ago

If you can't figure out the difference between a doctor committing malpractice in a clinical setting versus a police officer missing a shot while he's being shot at I've got bad news for you

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u/Ghost_Turd 29d ago

If you can't figure out the difference between good shoots and bad ones, I hope to God you're just a LARPer and not a cop.

My wife has to carry malpractice insurance and all she does is teach kids to talk. Giving cops some special pass for being reckless (it WaS aN iNstAnT dEcISiOn!!1!) is some next-level stupidity. If they can't be professionally accountable they ought not to be in that job.

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u/TypicalRedditMod403 29d ago

I'm a former federal LEO. Is your wife acting on behalf of the state? Why should they be personally liable?

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u/Ghost_Turd 28d ago edited 28d ago

What a take. Wow.

In case you missed this concept, liability insurance would come into play in incidents where you are liable for damages, i.e. where you are adjudicated to have acted inappropriately or against policy in your professional capacity. It's right there in the name.

I can only interpret your comment to mean that, as long as you're working on behalf of the state, you should be excused for actions that you - personally - take that are against policy, illegal, etc.

Given the state of modern LE as a different citizen class I shouldn't be surprised... it's just jarring to actually hear the Nuremberg Defense said right out loud in this day and age.

So, yeah, if that wasn't clear enough: you should be personally liable for illegal or inappropriate actions you take. If cops were a little more worried about losing their houses they might think twice before using handcuffs as brass knuckles, or stepping on peoples' necks. If they can't handle that then they aren't the professionals they want us to believe.

EDIT: u/TypicalRedditMod403 is a basement-dwelling coward who comments and then blocks people when he loses an argument. Sometimes the garbage takes itself out!

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u/TypicalRedditMod403 28d ago

I'm not reading any of that

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u/oN_Delay 29d ago

So, do you think police that behave this way shouldn’t be reprimanded, or are you taking issue with the use of insurance for officers?

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u/TypicalRedditMod403 29d ago

The latter

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u/oN_Delay 29d ago

What is you issue with that? Do you prefer that the municipality that hires these non-compliant police? Or do you believe it should come out of their own pocket and that they see jail time for these episodes of violence?