Traffic collisions involving police officers that caused severe injuries or deaths have resulted in multiple large payouts due to civil litigation in recent years.
Police departments should require officers to have malpractice insurance paid by their unions for each officer. If an officer is a problem, their Premium goes up.
All police settlements should come out of their own budgets.
I once read US police get only get a few months training, if true i would not be surprised they don’t drive safer/better as any other guy.
Unfortunately, very true.
Thanks for sharing. 6 months training of which 30 hours driving an emergency vehicle. I have no clue how effective these classes are and how adequate people feel after 30 hours. Also maybe it’s more or less in other places, but either way: if innocent people die while going after guilty people, that’s incredibly sad and if that happens time and time again, something in the system is clearly broken.
