Yep, and who ends up paying? The already-overburdened taxpayers of New York City. The cops involved probably won't even get one day's suspension. (And if they do it'll be with pay.)
My guess is these sorts of "mistakes" would drop by 95% within a day if a law was passed making the cops involved PERSONALLY financially liable for drug busts that storm a wrong/falsely accused address.
The Lt. will probably end up paying financially if not criminally for his mistake. "My guess is these sorts of "mistakes" would drop by 95% within a day if a law was passed making the cops involved PERSONALLY financially liable for drug busts that storm a wrong/falsely accused address."
Bad idea. If you stop indemnifying cops for good-faith errors you'll de-police the city in about a week. No one would do anything out of fear of losing their entire future. Can you say "Escape from New York"? Thats a recipe for the kind of anarchy that the libs here are trying to foist on NYC by destroying the NYPD.