06-11-2018, 12:47 PM
(06-11-2018, 12:37 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Public sector agencies and employees should only be sheltered from litigation if policies and procedures were followed and those policies and procedures are legal. If the stated policies were not followed then there should be some form of reparation. If the policies were followed and they were not legal (meaning they violated constitutional or statutory law), then there should be reparations made and the policies need to be updated. If the policies are legal and were followed, then there should be no reparations made, though the policies should be assessed for their effectiveness.
Sounds good in theory, but not real life. This is an area I work in and I can tell you every time something happens in policing everyone gets sued for lack of training and following procedures, even when things are followed to a "T". The fact everyone is allowed to sue for everything in the line of policing is a problem in itself and should be looked at, as other countries provide their police more latitude to police freely. If we in fact trained officers as much as they should be they'd never actually be on the streets. When you realize how many different areas they have to be trained in you realize that we have set up our officers to fail, which is why I think they just be protected better from litigation.
Society has let itself down in that we do not provide police with the proper funding to do what it is we ask them to do. You don't rise to the occasion you fall back to your training and unfortunately that fall back point can be a long ways in high stress situations.
