After reading the details of incidents like this in the Buttheads and BLM topics, this seems very unlikely. LEOs have no obligation to protect the public, or even to do a good job. Investigations tend to show these mistakes come from sloppy procedures. If cops want to stalk someone, they manage to get the right information to do so. Yet they misidentify suspects, mix up addresses, and forget to identify themselves in critical situations -probably because the consequences for that don’t really affect them.
Making municipalities pay for this is yet another problem. Instead of defunding the police, the police are defunding towns, counties, and cities that have to pay for their incompetence. We definitely need a system with some personal responsibility built in, but we have to get past the police unions first!
