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1. papeda+9r[view] [source] 2020-06-02 18:11:18
>>miles+(OP)
Slightly tangential question, but I have seen at least one proposal [1] for "malpractice insurance" for cops. The claim is that this would shift expenses for bad policing settlements from taxpayers to bad actors -- a bad cop attracts suits, creates settlements, pays higher premiums, and perhaps eventually stops being a cop. It has some kind of economic logic, but to the best of my knowledge this has never been implemented anywhere. Has it?

[1] https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/make-cops-carry...

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2. therea+bD1[view] [source] 2020-06-03 01:24:55
>>papeda+9r
There was a planet money episode about this too: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/22/705914833/epis...
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