Woman, 90, locked officer in basement, settles with police

[Amimnoch]

3. Really glad she is being taken care of, but it does not take care of the root of the problem.

The officers need time in Jail, and the money from the suit she just won needs to come out of their pockets back to the city for the rest of their working AND retirement lives. If there's ANY record of their behavior, prior to this incident, that was an indicator that they were loose cannons, then the chief/officer who had knowledge that they weren't the right caliber of persons to be entrusted with the welfare of the public should also have some of their salary hit for the rest of their working careers to cover the costs to the public.

The thing is, nobody who needs to learn a lesson from this does. She does get restitution - good. But the citizens taxes pay for it, so the police, and politicians who regulate, and/or appoint their leadership don't lose a dime, or a wink of sleep over it, after all.. it's not THEIR money that's paying for it, just tax money which might as well be monopoly money to them.

If we start making the individuals, and their enablers accountable for their actions, as everyone else in society is accountable, I bet we start seeing a LOT less police abuse of power.