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Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by cronix on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:29AM (#35285393)
It can make it more difficult, but I don't think you can say impossible or we'd never hear of people winning lawsuits for police misconduct. Here's a big one from a few days ago. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/us/philadelphia-police-miscon...
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Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by whitemary on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:57AM (#35285540)
No police were disciplined as a result of this lawsuit. The city just payed the plaintiffs.
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Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by autoexec on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:40AM (#35285771)
You mean the taxpayers just paid the plaintiffs. No matter how badly police screw up only innocent people seem to pay for it and the burden seems to always fall on the people who can least afford it.
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Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by athenot on Friday March 24, 2023 @08:05AM (#35287929)
One way to curb this is to make these fines come out of the pension plan for these officers instead of the general budget (ie. taxpayers). This would better align incentives.
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Re:Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid ... by whitemary on Friday March 24, 2023 @11:32AM (#35290407)
Exactly
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