Recurrence CANNOT be deterred if city tax-payers always pick-up the tab. Think about it:
“OK we gotcha for speeding, and to make sure it doesn’t recur, we hereby charge the CITY $300...”
Would that deter YOU? It wouldn’t deter me. And that’s why the cops make it, “Pay as you pollute” —the person who performs the tort must PAY. And we should do the same for the cops:
If a cop REALLY wants to join an entry-team and jump around in the ninjya kook gear and he’s a GOOD GUY, then let him post a, “Break Bond” —he takes pays for an insurance policy for $250,000 or something, in case he shoots someone’s dog needlessly or, say, drives over an orphanage with the SWAT A.P.C.
What’s the problem?
I mean...after all IF THEY DON’T PLAN TO DO ANYTHING WRONG, THEN THEY HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR.
The populace directly elects the municipal government that employs and directs the gendarmes.
Some local populaces are so damned stupid that they will not install a different sort of law enforcement until they are so broke they can't replace washed out bridges or keep the water utilities functioning. They fully deserve to be that broke for their idiocy.
No, the citizenry is not getting anything unfair, and this is what it takes to deal with idiots.