Perhaps criminal charges against those who left him there. “False Imprisonment.” $4M from taxpayers, or more precisely, printed up by the FedBank does not actually punish the people who committed this act. It rewards the victim, but does not address the uniformed perps.
I saw this fellow (Daniel Chong) on a TV news story about this incident, and he seems amazingly non-vindictive, saying it was just a “mistake”, and pretty much turning the other cheek, even while confirming that it was a horrible experience. I suppose he does not want to financially destroy those who harmed him. That’s very Christian of him, but, still, Chong certainly does deserve compensation from those who harmed him. Instead, in our crazy, mixed up society, it is the taxpayers who will compensate him.
The other side of this is a recent George Will line: “When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.” But George missed it slightly. That should be “When there is no penalty to the failers for failure, failures proliferate.” George F. Will