YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK: Violent criminal on federal payroll as informant. “Despite a history of abusing women and violent behavior in prison, Joshua Allan Jackson managed to become a federal informant, trigger a citywide Seattle police alert and hold a 18-year-old woman as his sexual prisoner.”

If law enforcement were liable to lawsuits in the same fashion as private business, things like this wouldn’t be the regular occurrences that they are now.