Timeline for What possible steps could be taken to fight racism in the police?
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| Jul 22, 2020 at 16:24 | comment | added | o.m. | @divibisan, that would encourage a department with such an officer not to admit any error, and to gamble on going to court even in questionable cases. My idea was to encourage the department to go to court only if they are overwhelmingly sure that the court will vindicate their actions. | |
| Jul 22, 2020 at 15:03 | comment | added | divibisan | @o.m. Yeah, I like that idea. While we're spitballing, what if the reimbursement rate was also tied to the officer's record, so officers who accumulate more complaints and problems become progressively more expensive, giving them an incentive to replace them or move them to desk jobs etc. where they're less likely to abuse the public. | |
| Jul 22, 2020 at 14:58 | comment | added | o.m. | @divibisan, a random, untested idea: if a police department admits an error on the first, internal/administrative review, some (most?) of the damages are paid by the Federal budget. If they go to court, damages come from their own municipal budget. So there is a strong financial incentive for the department to admit mistakes. And in an unrelated measure, any fines imposed by the cops or local courts go directly into the federal budget. So when they write a ticket, you know that it costs the department money for the administrative overhead, it doesn't bring them money. | |
| Jul 22, 2020 at 14:51 | comment | added | divibisan | @o.m. That's a good point, and I try to get at something like that with the last sentence of that section. We're in a sort of vicious cycle where cops "fort up" which destroys any trust the public might have in them, which makes them less likely to be accepting of legitimate mistakes, which leads to cops getting more defensive, etc. If people trusted that real bad actors would be held accountable, they would be more understanding of actual mistakes and more likely to believe that they were, in fact, mistakes). | |
| Jul 22, 2020 at 9:35 | vote | accept | yolo | ||
| Jul 22, 2020 at 4:16 | comment | added | jamesqf | @o.m.: But part of the problem is that we have a TV and movie industry that glorifies bad cops. "Dirty Harry", "Miami Vice", and hundreds if not thousands more. | |
| Jul 22, 2020 at 4:11 | comment | added | o.m. | The problem with personal accountability is that there should also be incentives for the department and the officer to admit error. If they get slapped with huge damages unless they fort up, they fort up. Police: support them when they are right, train them when they make honest mistakes, come down on them like a ton of bricks when they are deliberately wrong. | |
| Jul 22, 2020 at 2:47 | history | answered | divibisan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |