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Qualified immunity only applies to civil lawsuits. The real problem is the prosecutors are tight with the cops and will never bring criminal charges against th

Qualified immunity only applies to civil lawsuits. The real problem is the prosecutors are tight with the cops and will never bring criminal charges against them. Take that one cop who shot the woman in Minneapolis by accident. He was sent to jail. There was something different about that case I can't quite put my finger on. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/minneapolis-police-sentencing-mohamed-noor.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/minneapolis-police-sen... (Edit: typo)

peterpeppers 6y ago
The threat of being bankrupt for life would be a deterrent. Prosecutors and mayors wouldn't be so tight with cops if not for 1) the role of police unions and 2) optimizing for conviction rates. Change the incentives, change the outcomes. SOURCE: - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/how-police-unions-fight-reform https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/how-police-uni... - https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21290981/police-union-contracts-minneapolis-reform https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21290981/police-unio... - https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/police-unions-politics-george-floyd-breonna-taylor-1024473/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/poli... - https://thelensnola.org/2019/04/11/misconduct-by-prosecutors-is-rampant-how-do-we-deter-it/ https://thelensnola.org/2019/04/11/misconduct-by-prosecutors...
Ice_cream_suit 6y ago
"Mohamed Noor Somali-American Police Officer Sentenced " Of course, the conservatives will say that the unusually severe sentence was surely not due to to his name, religion or ethnic origin. Police, prosecutors and judges are never, ever, ever prejudiced in the fantasy America that they live in.