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Comment by sixothree | Hacker News Reader

Checks and balances are needed.

I fear this will be another egregious violation of the Constitution ignored under qualified immunity. Prosecuting egregious violations of the Constitution instead of allowing police to do whatever they like would be a good check/balance.

> I fear this will be another egregious violation of the Constitution ignored under qualified immunity.

The police officers, individually can have qualified immunity. The governments that employ them do not.

Which nicely transfers accountability away from the individuals doing unacceptable things, to the city itself, which cannot go to jail and can pay any penalty through taxes to the same people said penalty is meant to help.

What a good system.

There needs to be a requirement that Police are insured. The city/county shouldn't pay the bill for poor personal behavior of police with a side of accountability in the form of keeping insurable.

No, just put bad fucking cops in jail. We don't need some damn market of insurance for criminal behavior just because we are so unwilling to hold powerful people accountable, we just have to finally stand the fuck up and demand accountability!

The only reason to favor the insurance scheme over, you know, actual justice, is if you stand to profit from it.

I'll certainly be following it, but I highly doubt this.

They are indeed needed, and they are had. The perpetrators of this are headed to a courtroom, or multiple courtrooms.

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