The current attitude, even with good cops, toward lawsuits is "Bring it on."
I was joking with an LEO friend not long ago.
He was telling a group of us about entering a hidden underground "house" that a someone had built on public property. As things go, it was pretty elaborate, had a working fireplace etc. Some kids had found the opening and the county had it checked and caved in, and the police figured out who occasionally lived there. No crimes committted.
I joked about his not having a warrrant for entering a "homestead", maybe the "resident" was entitled to sue and get money for a real house.....
Anyway, the automatic response was:
"We welcome lawsuits, love em. We get free attorneys and get paid for our time, and the county and city insurance pays for everything. It just shows we are doing our job."
"We're not intimidated by lawsuits, we've got good lawyers too, and it's free to us."
That is the general attitude cops are learning, from what I can see. "We're right even when we're wrong, people are all sue-happy, lawyers are just greedy, judges are just idiots, screw em."
If taxpayers are tired of paying for these lawsuits against the police , they can rein in the lawyers and judges, but not the cops, is the attitude.