> It's going to be hard to tie financial responsibility to individual officers in a way that doesn't ultimately come back to tax dollars anyway.

Replace individual officer with individual common citizen. Knowingly doing something wrong results in <insert anything> for egg Knowingly driving a car into a building won’t be slap on the wrist and the tax payer will pay for it. It probably means you’ll be in jail, bankrupt etc. why shouldn’t same standard be applied?