No - You weren't following me correctly! - I was saying it the money paid out (lost to this victim) should come out of the ALREADY existing police budget (thus them doing with less) - It should not simply be paid by the tax-payers additionally onto what we already pay to the police department -
You see, this is how it works. Police are sued, they lose and the only real consequence is to the tax-payers ...not to that individual police department - If a police department is sued and losing (in a case such as this) that police department should actually feel the hit! (meaning, no new cars for X number of years, no new uniforms for X number of years, etc, etc - Police departments today get new toys and new gadgets about every month - this should stop and especially STOP in police departments where lawsuits have been lost!).
If you can show me 2 cases where a large city's police budget that has taken a hit by a lawsuit, and not reimbursed through a higher budget the next year, I'll agree with you. It don't happen my FRiend.
You know, this is the problem with many citizens who say "I don't want my tax money to pay for this (whatever)!! The government should pay for it!"....We are the "government" when it comes to paying governmental expenses. Other than that, the "gubbmint" doesn't have use for us at all.
People make me laugh when they say "the 'Gubbmint' should pay". It's still YOUR FREAKIN' MONEY!
FMCDH(BITS)