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Of course cause a lot of cops do break the rules an take life’s over very minor dumb things but hey don’t take my word for it just look outside an see — but with that being said not all officers are bad we just have a bad bunch of bad apple that mess things up for the good ones 🤷🏾
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Yes because then the officer can be held personally liable for their actions.
Qualified immunity needs to be reformed, not abolished. It is true that a lot of cops have gotten away with some pretty heinous things under the doctrine of qualified immunity. So something like lowering the bar for overcoming qualified immunity to a "willful violation" standard rather than the incredibly high one that has currently been implemented.
IMO, if you want to have reasonable protections for civil officials, then you can have it, and pass a law. However, QI was cut out of whole cloth by the courts alone, and we've been paying the price for it ever since. In other words, the damage it has caused far outweighs the benefits,
I absolutely agree that it is abused more than anything, but that doesn't negate the original intent. Qualified immunity in some form absolutely needs to exist in order for say... a prosecutor to do their job.
Perhaps we should not get things mixed up. Qualified immunity doesn't keep a police officer from being taken to court in a criminal hearing. It's an extra impediment to taking LE to court on a civil case.
Getting rid of qualified immunity and bankrupting bad cops is great for headlines, but ultimately neither places responsibility on the most culpable parties. That is those who make the rules of police practices. Neither does it create incentive for institutional change.
I think qualified immunity being stripped is a good starting point. If an individual officer messes up due to his own actions then he should be just as responsible for their own actions. However, a majority of these issues stem from systemic problems and these bad officers justify their actions as a result of that system.
Abolishing it isn't enough. I think a good second step would be that any lawsuits or settlements against police departments (not just individual officers) should no longer be covered by the police departments themselves (which is just taxpayer money) and it should be taken from the police pension funds. Taking the financial burden off of taxpayers and onto the police themselves will make a lot of officers think twice about acting out of protocol and incentivize other officers to greatly encourage their bad officers to not be so carefree with violating rules and regulations.
Insane!! Without qualified CIVIL immunity why would anyone want to be a law enforcement officer? If an officer breaks the law hold them personally accountable but if they are within department policy, state law & case law they should be protected from being personally sued because the public didn’t agree with the arrest. Our civil courts are already bogged down with useless lawsuit for everyone trying to “get paid”. Myself and many other LEOs would walk away & never look back!