Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:39

From: John Murphy

Subject: Police liability

First, thanks for that Ken for drawing out a very interesting passage. I hadn't bothered to read the case and would have missed it otherwise.

That said, I just wonder whether (non)litigious culture plays a part in the empirical findings.

I have no idea what the culture is in Canada. But in England there have been so many high profile police blunders - racism at the Met, etc - that I suspect (but, of course, don't know) that people in this country would be that much more likely to sue. And that being the case, it is presumably more likely that really opening up police liability here would indeed lead to a change in police practice (and possibly impair it).

John Murphy

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