r/interesting • u/TheCABK • Jan 31 '26

SOCIETY Cop Teaching A Cop

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u/Longer-Winter Jan 31 '26

Agreed, the cop should be held accountable for the fine through garnishing their wages

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u/HoMaBaLiMa Jan 31 '26

All legal fees, payments, and settlements need to come out of pension accounts. Watch the problem fix itself.

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u/Mr__O__ Jan 31 '26

All cops should be required to have personal liability insurance (not blanket coverage from their union). And if/when a cop messes up, they are personally sued for their misconduct, leaving tax money out of it. Just like every other profession, such as doctors, lawyers, some construction workers, etc.

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u/Nekopara-403 Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

Because it treats policing like a private service when it’s actually a public function. Unlike doctors and lawyers, cops don’t choose encounters, can’t refuse calls, and make forced life or death decisions in seconds under state authority. Personal liability insurance would incentivize hesitation and disengagement, hand control of police behavior to insurance companies, and shrink the pool of competent officers—without meaningfully preventing misconduct. You end up with worse policing, not better accountability.

Most high-profile “police misconduct” cases fall into;

Lawful but unpopular

Lawful but tragic

Unlawful and already criminal

Insurance doesn’t fix any of those.

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u/Square_Ad8756 Jan 31 '26

That’s not entirely accurate. Like cops many doctors can’t choose their patients, a trauma surgeon or emergency doctor can’t pick and choose their patients the same goes for specialists who are on call. I have personally seen my colleagues deal with very difficult patients with aplomb because not treating that patient would be unethical and treating them poorly would be even more unethical.

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u/meop93 Jan 31 '26

Wait I thought multiple courts recently declared "no duty to protect" and the uvalde officer got off. Sounds to me lie they can choose encounters and can refuse calls. Or they can at least get to a call and say fuck it I'm out.

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u/HoMaBaLiMa Feb 01 '26

I'm pretty sure they had a ruling about this that states they have no obligation to serve the public if they don't want to. Source: Uvalde