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Stated more correctly: police officers cannot be found personally liable in civil court for breaking the law. They can be prosecuted by the state for crimes th
by ajross 4y ago
Stated more correctly: police officers cannot be found personally liable in civil court for breaking the law. They can be prosecuted by the state for crimes they commit, and the agencies that employ them can be sued for damages.
But no, in practice you can't personally sue a cop in civil court in the United States for anything that can be even vaguely understood as police work, no matter how terrible an abuse it is.
- tsimionescu 4y agoActually, there is at least one case showing you can't sue a government employee of any kind for anything that can even be vaguely understood as police work, no matter how terrible an abuse it is. The case was about a government engineer who legally acted as a police officer, but still got QI in his capacity as a government engineer for it, and it is settled (SCOTUS declined to hear it).
- anticensor 4y ago> SCOTUS declined to hear it That counts as case dismissed, not as settled.