As long as the lawsuits are personal (maybe lien on their houses) and not paid for by citizen’s taxes.
Even indirectly, citizens who tolerate this garbage have a hand in its moral liability.
They are government agents acting in pursuit of their duties as such. The PD needs to be punished for their incompetence and the only way to do that is to hit them in the pocket book, even though the taxpayers are the ones who ultimately pay the price. When they get fed up with the costs of government incompetence, then they will change it........................