I am beginning to think that some police officers need to post a personal liability bond before they put their first day in uniform. As long as police officers aren't held personally responsible for their actions they have no reason to behave.
That's the real deal. They don't have any skin in the outcome. It's the taxpayers who would be stuck footing the bill. I like the idea of a personal liability bond. It may make the think before they do something stupid.
I like the idea of the personal liability bond. Screw ups like this would put them off the force permanently for lack of the ability to post bonds in the future.
In Virginia, if a person kills another in self defense, the law states that the person still standing is to be automatically charged with the death of the other, with an investigation to follow. [This would encourage the philosophy of “shoot, shovel, shut up”, all else being equal.] The question I have is this: Is this true in the case of a shooting by police, and if not, why not? I realize that this could be taken as a sarcastic rhetorical question, like a lot of others that I post; in this case it is not. I am REALLY getting tired of people with uniforms considering themselves above the law, like the folks that write the laws do.