Tort Law Run Amok - $750,000 for a shoplifter

[Jaecp]

Head-first tackles have the momentum of the whole body behind the head. That's quite different than somebody just falling down where the body doesn't drive the head into the ground but is falling parallel to it.

So you are suggesting that the LPO tackled the guy to the ground? OK. So the LPO tackled him like a line backer instead of hurling him like a wrestler.

Still not an appropriate action, and consequently making his employer liable for the damages.

It's why damn near every national retailer I've ever heard of has non confrontation policies. Especially since the average security guard, actual security guards with licenses and shit, make 14 an hour in this country. LPO's are security guards minus the everything. LPO's at large retailers start out at minimum wage (maybe 10). Not the level of employee you want taking any action thats risks nearly a million dollars of losses, right? I wonder what the industry average is for force multiplier of LPO staff is. Like, every dollar spent saves a certain amount more.

I wonder how many years of work those LPO's would have to do to just break even on the 750,000 settlement. Ha!

But no, Derec is totes on point focusing on the failure of tort laws and delineating between styles of a hit that should never have occured in the first place.