This is really branching off from the Civil Forfeiture focus, but I disagree.MWmetalhead wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 7:01 amThose working in an official capacity, in most cases, should not have greater legal protection than the ordinary citizen.
I recognize that frivolous tort lawsuits is a risk. The way to dissuade those is to have penalties for litigants and lawyers who file such lawsuits.
Public officials and especially LEO have a target on their back from many folks looking to take advantage of that position. They would be effectively made useless by non-stop liability challenges where the bulk would be completely frivolous and the remainder questionable at best. Perhaps one in a million would have some merit. You'd have to institute some mechanism for judging any merit before any case could move forward, that that process would be ripe for its own corruption.
Think we have too many Fieger and Morse commercials now?? Airwaves would be dominated with the commercials, only to have three or four one minute intervals every hour to see the actual show.
Might as well just eliminate the positions and see where we'd go as a society.