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They key difference here is whether you care more about bad officers facing consequences or the victims getting compensation. Eliminating qualified immunity on
by bradleyjg 4y ago
They key difference here is whether you care more about bad officers facing consequences or the victims getting compensation.
Eliminating qualified immunity only helps with the second part and does zero with respect to the first, but advocates of reform never make that clear.
Even with qualified immunity sometimes victims win judgments. On the other hand indemnification is 100% universal and effective at protecting cops. No cop ever pays anything out of his own pocket, period.
- landemva 4y agoSame with judges and court clerks. 'Because government'.
- bradleyjg 4y agoThey have absolute immunity. That’s a separate issue.
- ch4s3 4y agoI have a feeling that if municipalities start having to pay out lots of settlements for civil rights abuses by police, they'll start reconsidering the limits of indemnification.
- bradleyjg 4y agoIt hasn’t happened in practice. NYC’s is way up this year, Adams is doubling down on supporting the police. Instead of hoping for trickle down to work why not attack the problem directly?