A Good Cause
posted at 11:45 am on June 13, 2006 by Bryan
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Patterico is raising funds for the family of an LAPD officer paralyzed in the line of duty. Head on over and help out if you can.
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I’m not sure I agree with this on HOTAIR. What does the police dept. already do for these people, and the insurance that they carry? Police Union insurance, personal insurance, etc. Why now, why this? Where will it end? It is a nobel cause indeed, but there are many. I guess my concern is the thousands of families that are so tragically hurt by death when no insurance is available. Who speaks for them? Who helps them financially?
-Bryan, feel free to delete my post, as I might be biased, it will not bother/insult me. I do feel privileged to write on your site and I do not want to hinder good deeds.
I appologize if I have overstepped my assumed rights.
shooter on June 13, 2006 at 12:50 PM
I don’t know about this shooter, but I certainly feel that way about those who died in the 9-11 attacks.
Sorry folks, but let’s be real here! If you or I got killed by some nut job on our way to work tomorrow would the United States Government be paying our family millions of dollars out of the people’s pockets? You bet your sweet bippy they wouldn’t. And they sure wouldn’t be shelling out BILLIONS for some memorial in our memory! So why did we????
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on June 13, 2006 at 1:40 PM
Thanks Patterico & Bryan.
I’ve been following her story via the local new here in LA but I only found out yesterday that she was paralyzed.
I’ll spread the word.
The Ugly American on June 13, 2006 at 2:13 PM
Upstaged by an Ugly American! What’s this world coming to?
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on June 13, 2006 at 2:24 PM
KCAL 9 now has video of her leaving the hospital.
Also…more fundraising info via KCAL9’s website:
Help Officer Kristina Ripatti
A BBQ’s being held June 14, 2006 to benefit the officer, who was shot by a robbery suspect, with the cost of her recovery. If you can help finance the cost of feeding over 500 people or supply provisions, please contact: Officer Beecher or Officer Scott at (213) 485-4097. If you wish to send a check, please make it out to Tim Pearce (officer Ripatti’s husband and fellow officer) and mail care of: Lt. Miller Los Angeles Police Department, Southwest Division 1546 W. Martin Luther King Los Angeles, CA 90062
The Ugly American on June 13, 2006 at 4:27 PM
Someone give us the $ numbers? How much will she collect from all the insurance sources? There is a special clause for injured and paralyzed Police by their insurance and the police union’s insurance companies. You gotta think a union has them covered. It is an unimaginable horror to be paralyzed for life. I feel for her and her family. If there is a deficit, I’ll try to help. This effort would mean that LA cops are NOT covered if they get shot? Not covered by the police insurance, nor the unions, nor their individual insurance??? HOW could that be?
I also agree with Dread Pirate Roberts VI on June 13, 2006 at 1:40 PM, why did those people receive 3.5 MILLION Dollars? Did the Oklahoma survivors receive that? Are our soldiers overseas fighting for us receiving anything like that sum if they’re crippled ? Like Ben Stein says, they’re probably the poorest of the lot, our servicemen and women.
Someone explain all this to me, please. Cops and few others receive so much more, and they are the ones with insurance?
Do they NEED this? Maybe we need to expose bad insurance policies? (no pun intended).
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Dread Pirate Roberts help out here, do you know these things?
shooter on June 13, 2006 at 6:18 PM
“(Washington, DC) By a unanimous vote, the U.S. Senate has approved a measure to make permanent a $150,000 increase in life insurance coverage for military men and women, up from $250,000 to $400,000. The increase is effective for all service members’ deaths which have occurred as of September 1, 2005.”
In addition, service personnel can purchase supplemental life insurance. Additional $400,000 in coverage as of July 1, 2006 will be $29.00 per pay period. It’s been a long time so I don’t know if that’s still monthly or now bi-monthly.
So, get your butt blown to hell and your wife and kids get $400,000 plus, I would assume, Social Security Death and survivor benefits.
If your loved one worked a as a busboy at Windows on the World, from what I’m seeing you get $3.5 million plus SS and whatever group life insurance or individual life insurance you carried. If you loved one worked for one of the big financial institutions, I would assume that he/she had better benefits befitting their higher salary.
Either way, $800,000 for putting your life on the line to defend us v $3,500,000 for just being in the wrong place at the wrong time!
As for Police, Fire, First Responders, I would only venture to guess that they have pretty good life insurance bene’s but I’m sure any supplemental policies are expensive because of their work. But, I’m not sure they even approach the basic $400,000 our military receives. But I could be wrong.
SGLI Premium Rate Effective July 1, 2006
Coverage Amount Basic Premium Rate TSGLI Premium Total Monthly
Premium Deduction
50,000 $3.50 $1.00 $4.50
100,000 $7.00 $1.00 $8.00
150,000 $10.50 $1.00 $11.50
200,000 $14.00 $1.00 $15.00
250,000 $17.50 $1.00 $18.50
300,000 $21.00 $1.00 $22.00
350,000 $24.50 $1.00 $25.50
400,000 $28.00 $1.00 $29.00
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on June 14, 2006 at 11:24 AM