Another tact is to insure the police. There was an NPR journal on that a long time ago and it worked wonders where a police department was basically the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, running up all kinds of crazy legal fees for the city. Insurance compliance drove 100% of the needed departmental changes in a way that kept behavior, budget, and the city council in check. In exchange, the insurance policy was there for any mishaps or gross mistakes that would require a payout of any kind.
Foisting change politically by top-down policy was woefully ineffective in comparison. While this doesn’t fix the underlying problems with qualified immunity and how the cops can still fuck up anyone’s day on a whim, this does help.
so now you’re paying a private entity in this round about bullshit way for a service that isn’t actually the service you want but the service you want kinda is a side hustle for them in order to bring down their costs
insurance may be the way forward because the situation is so far beyond fucked it’s incredible
… but insurance shouldn’t be the answer
just make the insurance compliance stuff law and also make sure to add that if the rules aren’t followed you’re on your own
Oh, I agree. It’s perverse that the most effective way to govern is to outsource parts of it. It’s dangerous in other ways, but I will say that insurance companies can usually be relied upon to be greedy in ways that are advantageous in this particular scheme.
Another tact is to insure the police. There was an NPR journal on that a long time ago and it worked wonders where a police department was basically the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, running up all kinds of crazy legal fees for the city. Insurance compliance drove 100% of the needed departmental changes in a way that kept behavior, budget, and the city council in check. In exchange, the insurance policy was there for any mishaps or gross mistakes that would require a payout of any kind.
Foisting change politically by top-down policy was woefully ineffective in comparison. While this doesn’t fix the underlying problems with qualified immunity and how the cops can still fuck up anyone’s day on a whim, this does help.
so now you’re paying a private entity in this round about bullshit way for a service that isn’t actually the service you want but the service you want kinda is a side hustle for them in order to bring down their costs
insurance may be the way forward because the situation is so far beyond fucked it’s incredible
… but insurance shouldn’t be the answer
just make the insurance compliance stuff law and also make sure to add that if the rules aren’t followed you’re on your own
Oh, I agree. It’s perverse that the most effective way to govern is to outsource parts of it. It’s dangerous in other ways, but I will say that insurance companies can usually be relied upon to be greedy in ways that are advantageous in this particular scheme.
just take the litigation payouts out of their pension funds
Okay, that’s kind of brilliant.