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Flightmare wrote: ↑Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:47 pmWhile I see where you're going here. Keep in mind that the government does not have any money of it's own. Every penny that the federal/state/local governments have is from the governed. While the person mentioned above suffered a terrible tragedy, you are effectively proposing that the rest of the citizenry compensate them for their loss.

Certainly it's taxpayers' money, but we set up the government and the police, because we expect to get more benefit than cost. But injury to innocent people is part of the cost that should be factored into the equation. Why should some hapless schmoe who has the misfortune of encountering rogue police have to bear the cost? We all should bear the cost, because we maintain the police for our benefit.

Here's some additional discussion of the case cited:
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/307505/#respond

I'm thinking in public here, which is dangerous, but it seems citizens ought to be compensated when their government wrongs them.

So if the government agent could not reasonably be expected to know his conduct was wrong, let the citizen recover from the government employer. If the government agent knew or should have known the conduct was wrong, make the agent personally liable--as well as the government, which should have hired better agents.