Well, Would You Look At That?

J-Fled taking credit for one of the simplest of ideas that EVERY SINGLE COP has been advocating for as long as we can remember. Hell, we've been advocating it for over 5-and-a-half years here. It even came up at J-Fled's "town hall" meetings where they looked for malcontents to dump:

• Chicago's year-old strategy of going to trial with lawsuits against police officers instead of settling cases is paying off, city officials say.

  Last fall, police Supt. Jody Weis notified Chief U.S. Judge James F. Holderman of the change in legal strategy.

• A year later, the results are "astonishing," according to a report the Law Department prepared for this year's City Council budget hearings. Lawsuits filed against cops -- and settlements of lawsuits -- have both fallen dramatically, the report said.

If you pay people for bad behavior, you will get more of it. Witness welfare fraud, years of "unemployment" handouts, LINK, and Social Security for generations of layabouts who have been on the dole for years, . Why do you think entire families of grifters moved to Wisconsin from all over the midwest in the 1980's? If you reduce the incentives for misbehavior, you get less of it. Gingrich proved this during the Clinton years.

So don't listen to the plaintiff lawyers in the article who denigrate the system of fighting suits. They're plaintiffs' lawyers for a reason.

And someone tell J-Fled to stop taking credit for something simple street cops have been saying since 5 superintendents ago.