SWAT raids 81 yo's home, breaks his hip, leaves without calling paramedics

[avebury]

8. I remember a while back reading an article about

a city in Ohio where the City Council was yet again voting on a multi-million dollar settlement on a police brutality case. The head of the City Council stated that he didn't want to sign off on it because he was tired of having to pay all these settlements on police brutality cases.

My thoughts on the matter - The City obviously hadn't learned anything. If you keep having to settle police brutality cases then you need to take a hard look at your police department and institute changes.

The problem with this country is that money is king. You cannot depend upon police departments to do the right thing when it comes to policing their own and actually protecting and serving the public. A militarized police state is the US version of a terrorist group.

If a police department, city, county, whatever refuses to step up to the plate, take responsibility for the crimes that are committed by their employees on their watch then I have no problem with suing them into total bankruptcy. You have to make it totally financially unbearable for them to continue functioning as they currently do. While cops never are held financially liable for their actions, if you bankrupt a police department/town/county whatever, they can't get their salaries paid.

Why should cops be any less financially liable for their actions then those who work in other professions? They should be required to carry the police version of malpractice insurance. Maybe if they realize that there are consequences for their actions they might think twice about what they do.