As I understand ... law suits are paid for by the taxpayer ... how is this a deterrent ?
I imagine it is a stain on the officer’s record. Some will care, some won’t.
Lawsuits are paid by insurance companies. They’ll simply refuse issue policies to jurisdictions that continue behaving this way.
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Can go after them personally. Especially if govt fires them.
Not sure how true this is, but I remember reading somewhere that the key is to put them on notice (i.e., directly inform the officers or officials during the encounter) about their qualified immunity and then remind them of:
U.S.C. Title 18, Sec. 241 & 242 - Conspiracy Against Rights & Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law respectively.
U.S.C. Title 42, Sec. 1983 & 1985 - Civil action for deprivation of rights & Conspiracy to interfere with civil rights respectively.
The reference was to address the officer with something like, "Officer I duly place you 'on notice' to take cognizance to your Oath of Office steadfastly in ethics and integrity." Again, my understanding is that by putting them on notice it supposedly pierces their "Qualified Immunity" argument and opens the door to being to hold them individually accountable. Hopefully, someone more experienced with legalese could confirm or deny that.
Totally agree. This is the wrong approach.
So the big threat is we will take you the government to a government court where ultimately government will decide if government did anything wrong and needs to punish itself?
Is that the plan when the commies get full control again and decide to go national with these red flag confiscations where swat teams show up at your home at 1am and seize your property and only means of defense against crime or tyranny without any due process?