In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted. In practice, getting past ‘qualified immunity’ is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens. ![]() The legal doctrine of “ qualified immunity” renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long. When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “ testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.Ĭops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. When police are fired - which is all too rare - they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. ![]() Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release - often nothing at all. When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.ĩ9.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it’s not on this page. ![]() The police problem is that police are policed by the police.
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