Court Finds Sheriff’s Raid to Find Blogger Who Criticized Him Unconstitutional

Re:Court Finds Sheriff’s Raid to Find Blogger Who Criticized... by sandworm101 on Saturday August 27, 2016 @05:44PM (#12374320)

Except that many/most local governments are in turn covered by insurance. So suing them is not fundamentally different than suing a private citizen with similar insurance. Both costs are born by the pool of insurance purchasers, private and public.

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Re:Court Finds Sheriff’s Raid to Find Blogger Who Criticized... by EdHominem on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:17PM (#12382906)

The insurance is likely owned by "us" anyways through our mutual funds, retirement plans, etc. And high insurance fees come out of our pocket directly as well by making such policies more expensive in the next city.

The issue though is that it's not the pockets of the guilty. Officers are almost entirely shielded from the legal and financial costs of the damage they do.

When we ask "Why do they behave like that?" the answer is because they can, and there's literally no reason for them not to. They're literally consequence free.

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Re:Court Finds Sheriff’s Raid to Find Blogger Who Criticized... by S_Daedalus on Saturday August 27, 2016 @06:04PM (#12374384)

ITT: I learn just how pitifully limited and inaccurate my knowledge of insurance is. Is there a good place to learn more about this topic, online?

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