In April, we noted how 11 Texas employees were let go for their behavior in supervising mentally and developmentally disabled people in a state school. Well, the other shoe has dropped, and it’s a doozy:
Nearly 270 employees were fired or suspended for abusing or …
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this is an important article, thanks for sharing it!
i must disagree that simply being fired is `serious disciplinary action’ however.
i realize there is very little room for any kind of accountability appropriate to discourage rampant abuse without civil legal action though and without that level of concern for the victims/targets this may have been as much as could be hoped for.
as an economist by training there is no doubt in my mind that when those inflicting severe damages are not held economically accountable for the externalities they inflict, there is little incentive for reform.
we can pass all the laws we want, lack of enforcement being well known, it doesn’t matter.
people of color could not `sit at the counter’ until there were massive damages being paid out by using the interstate commerce clause to haul those perpetuating `jim crow’ into federal court and facing punitive damages sufficient to be a deterrent.
i doubt this is going to be any different for other groups targeted for hate crimes and other abuses due to who they are, not what they have done `wrong’.