In recent years, a little-known player has been quietly reshaping America’s smaller police departments: the insurance industry.
But a town the size of Niota can’t raise that kind of money. Like most smaller cities, it, either via a commercial insurer or a nonprofit “risk pool” with other nearby governments. These insurers help cities weather the cost of legal claims ranging from playground injuries to wrongful convictions to police abuse.
By the summer of 2013, Niota’s insurer, a Tennessee risk pool, was fed up. Preece said the insurer gave her a choice: Yet insurance is no white horse, experts caution. Some experts worry many insurers do little more than shield cities from the consequences of police misconduct. When the customers are police departments, “loss prevention” means teaching a police department how to reduce risk. In the first in-depth study on how insurers affect police,the industry’s carrots and sticks, from policy audits to virtual reality use-of-force simulators. Often, insurers educate departments on risky areas like vehicle pursuits and strip searches. Many do site visits and ride-alongs, keeping a “watch list” for departments with histories of costly lawsuits, according to the study.
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