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>>mnm1+(OP)
Qualified immunity has become a get-out-of-jail-free card for law enforcement.

I believe it's the primary reason for the complete apathy law enforcement shows towards de-escalation and self-restraint in general.

Why bother behaving when the standard for prosecuting you is so high as to be laughable?

>>typeni+Yi
Technically qualified immunity does not shield officers from prosecution it only stops them from being sued.

So a pretty reasonable question you'd ask in the rest of the world is: Why aren't these cops prosecuted for excessive violence? The use of civil rights lawsuits in the US was a workaround for an already broken legal system that doesn't punish wrong doing by certain people.

>>tialar+bl
"We have investigated ourselves and found we have done nothing wrong"

Until the concept of "Internal Affairs" dies and we get an actual independent investigative arm or some other strategy that will continue

The only time an outside investigator is called in, normally is because someone dies AND the public is upset about that death.