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Why might police need misconduct insurance?

Austin attorney Kiele Linroth Pace has a couple of thematically linked posts on the blog Austin Justice: The first one pointed to a Statesman story about Austin police officers buying misconduct insurance for $17 per month that pays their wages if they're suspended for cause (the police union is looking for a group rate). Another post gave an excellent example of why officers might need such insurance, describing an Austin-based example of apparent testilying by a police officer on a minor offense. Pace was:taken aback by the blatant lying that I encountered last week. The case involved a rarely used arm of the criminal trespass statute that I was familiar with only because of the time that I spent as a prosecutor in the piney woods of East Texas...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 18, 2009 (boomark / email).