Police Reform

[RedDenver]

Just now, DevoHusker said:

 

Municipal police departments are City entities. They do not have their "own" money. It is all City budget thus tax payers. 

City could deduct from the police portion of the budget what the costs of litigation and such are. I'm not sure if that's a good idea, but it's possible to do.

[DevoHusker]

1 minute ago, RedDenver said:

City could deduct from the police portion of the budget what the costs of litigation and such are. I'm not sure if that's a good idea, but it's possible to do.

Agreed, but it is all taxpayer money. 

[RedDenver]

3 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

Agreed, but it is all taxpayer money. 

Yes, agreed. @Omaha-Husker was incorrect in the "rather than the tax payers", but the rest of that post is an interesting idea of whether making the police feel the impact of the financial effects would help curb unwanted behaviors.

[Omaha-Husker]

11 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

Yes, agreed. @Omaha-Husker was incorrect in the "rather than the tax payers", but the rest of that post is an interesting idea of whether making the police feel the impact of the financial effects would help curb unwanted behaviors.

 

Fair that was not the best wording.

 

I mean tax payers cover those settlements outside of the budget set aside for the PD. Something can be done to shift that liability to PDs or officers themselves. Colorado just passed a law that makes officers that do something that results in a settlement personally liable for 5% of the settlement or $25,000 whichever is less. This is brand new so who knows if it helps, but as of now the offending officer is pretty much entirely insulated from the financial hit that the city takes.

[DevoHusker]

 

 

[RedDenver]

 

[RedDenver]

This needs to be adopted at all levels of law enforcement:

 

[knapplc]

 

[ZRod]

1 hour ago, knapplc said:

 

Could this have been one of those situations where they needed him not to suspect they are on to him as they were building the case against him?

[SECHusker]

1 hour ago, ZRod said:

Could this have been one of those situations where they needed him not to suspect they are on to him as they were building the case against him?

 

Doubt that, because he can't be a witness to any of the cases he worked on during that time.

[Enhance]

17 hours ago, ZRod said:

Could this have been one of those situations where they needed him not to suspect they are on to him as they were building the case against him?

 

15 hours ago, SECHusker said:

Doubt that, because he can't be a witness to any of the cases he worked on during that time.

That's what the police department is claiming.

 

 

[ZRod]

6 minutes ago, Enhance said:

 

That's what the police department is claiming.

 

 

Crazy that it took 3 years though...

[SECHusker]

3 hours ago, Enhance said:

 

That's what the police department is claiming.

 

 

 

Hopefully he wasn't the lead investigator in recent cases, because absent independent evidence a majority of them will be dropped.

[DevoHusker]

 

[SECHusker]

 

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