@georgetakei All LEOs should have to carry personal liability insurance, like doctors and lawyers. Municipalities should take their existing insurance premium money, and distribute it as an allowance to the LEOs to pay for this, and to get out of the liability business. This insurance would be REQUIRED in order to hold a law enforcement job. If you are violent, your insurance goes up, and that comes out of your pocket. If you are too violent, or kill someone without defending yourself, you lose your insurance coverage and can no longer workin law enforcement.

@PlineyTheNewer @georgetakei
I'm sure it feels good to suggest this and implicitly demonize all law enforcement this way, but as a former LEO who put my life on the line for victims of crime, it's pretty upsetting. Also, quite impossible, since many, many people fall under the LEO umbrella (clerks, medical staff, contract staff, etc.). In the end, we generally have a stringent Code of Conduct & should face consequences if we violate it, up to & including incarceration for criminal conduct.

@RandomAnt @georgetakei I never said ALL LEOs were bad, but just like drivers, the bad ones require that we all carry insurance. As for consequences, there really aren’t any, in most cases. The toot that started this was about the officer who shot Breonna Taylor, basically in cold blood, got another job in the same state. That cannot happen if people are to trust and have faith in law enforcement.