[traditional1]

"I'd prefer that people be reimbursed for damage

I agree 100% with that...it's the "pain, suffering, loss of consortium, etc., etc., plus PUNITIVE DAMAGES in the Millions" that's out of control. Reasonable compensation in addition to ACTUAL DAMAGES is where it needs to be, and the Lawyer-Lobby that holds the purse-strings of re-election campaigns have bought their jackpot for the forseeable future, as tort reform will NEVER eliminate the price-gouging practices.

[Dead Corpse]

If actual damages by law enforcement were punished by actual jail time, maybe there wouldn't be as high a civil reward given later.

[GrandEagle]

Reasonable compensation in addition
Hence our difference of opinion.
What is reasonable when your home was intruded into in the middle of the night - potentially at an "intimate moment" with your spouse. You are thrown down, handcuffed, then forced to watch as the "police" voyeur you daughter and her friends while they are getting dressed? You are then taken out into your yard, half clothed, while the "police" plunder your home. I don't think 8 million is enough.
If it doesn't cost more than the gain, the behavior doens't change. That is human nature.

[Republican Party Reptile]

I agree 100% with that...it's the "pain, suffering, loss of consortium, etc., etc., plus PUNITIVE DAMAGES in the Millions" that's out of control. Reasonable compensation in addition to ACTUAL DAMAGES is where it needs to be, and the Lawyer-Lobby that holds the purse-strings of re-election campaigns have bought their jackpot for the forseeable future, as tort reform will NEVER eliminate the price-gouging practices.

umm, after all, the whole idea of PUNITIVE DAMAGES is to inflict punishment, so it SHOULD be financially painful. To only recompensate "Reasonable Compensation" suggest there is no need for punishment - it's all in the day's work and no wrong was done???