Dang, is it about to be on once again
Somebody got to get law enforcement under control.
Depending on the state, officers accused of misconduct might even keep their police pension and even be able to sue the municipality for back pay if they are fired and then found criminally not guilty. The money for civilian payouts for police misconduct does not come from police department budgets. Rather, civilian payouts overwhelmingly come from general funds, though some come from bonds and even insurance policies, particularly in smaller areas.
They fukk up, get sued and
taxpayers having to pay extra for it is dumb af.
You start affecting their pension/retirement funds that way they're all held accountable and watch what happens.
Their department needs to pay and they need to be held accountable as a whole for any kind of misconduct.
That's how you get some self-accountability and self-policing going.