I hope that the couple and the wife’s mother are not looking for a big bucks settlement, which penalizes the taxpayer, but to file criminal civil rights charges against the officers participating in the raid and those who authorized it.
The JBTs have to be personally liable or they will not stop.
"The JBTs have to be personally liable or they will not stop."
Finally someone gets down to the meat of this travesty of justice. Thanks for posting that. However, I am in total disagreement with almost everything you wrote!
The tax payers should bear the burden of any monetary settlement. That should be the standard penalty in every city and town where the citizens neglect their duty to watch over those who are chosen to police the city.
The taxpayers cannot avoid paying their share of the damage done while they sleep, for the cost of living in a free society is eternal vigilance. Those who neglect their duty must choose to pay with money or to be strapped with the burden of living in a cesspool.
I believe in personal responsibility and I agree with you that those who betray the trust of those who they are sworn to serve should be made to suffer for their indiscreet acts. That alone does not relieve the taxpayers form selecting trustworthy police officers, and insisting to the point of incarceration they perform their duties in an honorable fashion.
Semper Fi
An Old Man