Abstract:
A string of deadly police-citizen encounters, made public on an unprecedented scale, has thrust American policing into the crucible of political conflict. New social movements have taken to the streets, while legislators have introduced a wide array of reform proposals. Optimism is elusive, however, as the police are notoriously resistant to change. Yet one powerful policy lever has been overlooked: police liability insurance. Based on primary sources new to legal literature and interviews with over thirty insurance industry representatives, civil rights litigators, municipal attorneys, police chiefs, and consultants, this Article shows how liability insurers are capable of effecting meaningful change within the agencies they insure — a majority of police agencies nationwide …
John Rappaport, How Private Insurers Regulate Public Police, 130 Harvard Law Review 1539.
See also: Andrea Cann Chandrasekher, Empirically Validating the Police Liability Insurance Claim – Responding to John Rappaport, 130 Harvard Law Review Forum 233 (10 April).
First posted 2017-04-11 06:21:15
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