Does a single dime come out of any officer’s or city official’s own personal pocket?
Didn’t think so.
That is the problem...take it out of their personal hide, and this sh*t ends quickly.
it should come out of their personal pensions and they, like other professionals, should be made to carry liability insurance of at least a million per wrongful death.
It does quite properly come from the taxpayer though.
And, if the taxpayers remain the idiots they were to vote in an administration that had low enough standards that this was possible then they need to lose exponentially more if there is another incident.
Sometimes, you have to understand (even if you don’t like it) the consequences run back up and body slam the top of the authority structure.
In America, that top is the voter.
We get what we deserve.