To be clear, what they did to Tom Perez was ALREADY illegal. Which is why he was able to sue and win $900K. If you want to prevent these sorts of things from h

To be clear, what they did to Tom Perez was ALREADY illegal. Which is why he was able to sue and win $900K. If you want to prevent these sorts of things from happening in the future, adding another ban on this behavior isn’t going to do it. There needs to be consequences for the officers that do this. It’s not the officers paying $900K, it’s the city. And they aren’t getting fired, the officers that did that to Tom Perez even got promoted! The system of accountability needs to be reformed. Maybe that means reforming qualified immunity, maybe demoting and firing officers for misconduct, maybe prosecutors need to start indicting officers when their behavior gets to the point of criminality. Personally, I think if you could sue, say, the police union rather than the city when there is misconduct, things would turn around fast.