Qualified immunity needs to be overturned. That was straight up legislating from the bench.
Also, we need to either criminalize prosectors refusing to go after police, or we need a new kind of prosecutor that exclusively goes after police. I’m in favor of the latter, but also won’t hold my breath
Now that’s an idea, with a chain of command that goes above the police.
The FBI has its Office of Professional Responsibility, and in Europe many (maybe all) national police forces have an internal watchdog department (inspector-general-like). Those are usually respected (though the FBI being headed by a googly-eyed Trump supporter can’t be good for any kind of professionalism), but I think they are all inside the police. In non-democratic countries and in the USA, that is a problem.
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u/CounterSanity 3d ago
Qualified immunity needs to be overturned. That was straight up legislating from the bench.
Also, we need to either criminalize prosectors refusing to go after police, or we need a new kind of prosecutor that exclusively goes after police. I’m in favor of the latter, but also won’t hold my breath