1. In all case where a Public Employee is found Liable for violating the civil rights of another, said person shall be Prohibited from using, owning or possessing any firearm or ammunition.
2. Any and all claims of "Qualified Immunity" involving the violation of anyone's Civil Rights Shall be considered a Guilty Plea to a Felony if Taxpayers are required to PAY any Judgement or settlement.
End qualified immunity, require a bond for each police officer, just like a plumber, or electrician, or any other professional and when the bond becomes too expensive, that bad cop goes away. Game over.
People should be able to sue for this stuff, and the financial awards should come from the budget of the dept who did it.
These apps that locate your stuff are not very accurate.
My wife’s phone says it’s located at least a half mile from our house...................
Thank God.
Good. The cops and departments need to be accountable. Settlements should not just paid by the taxpayers. Too much of that and “we investigated ourselves and didn’t nothing wrong.”
These SWAT raids need to stop.
Now, Apple is SWATting innocents.
Internal affairs officers need to be fired along with these officers.
Bullying punks in their paramilitary gear. So brave. So macho.
I’d love to see them transported into a fighting hole in the Nam with a moonless night, rain, and Charlie out there with a knife. See these punks crapping their skivvies and shooting each other in the dark.
Three deputies went to one of my rentals for a domestic disturbance. They spotted if I recall, thirty 12-inch-tall pot plants, which they evaluated at fifty thousand dollars. The couple was drunk, so the deputies put them to bed. That night they came back and bashed the door in. The SWAT team brought their armored car, and they wore their cosplay armored suits. It was purely an opportunity to practice, to get the extra pay and to play big city cop. They did somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand dollars in damage. They are not responsible for fixing anything they damage. Frankly, I’m lucky they didn’t drive the armored car into the house. (Fifty thousand dollars. I suppose any excuse is excuse enough and the number looked politically good, but if that was the desire they shouldn’t have told the paper the number and size of the plants.)
Not only did they knock the door down but left it there with the house wide open to anyone who wanted to go through and rob it. The neighbor came over and laid the door back in the frame, so it looked closed. But the whole don’t give a damn about anyone less’s property was clearly on display.
Over the years I’ve gone from strongly pro-police to slightly anti-police. And I don’t think that change is my fault, if you get my drift.
However, I’m still in favor of qualified immunity when the cop has to make a split-second decision while under stress.
Unfortunately, qualified immunity also seems to apply when a cop casually makes a trash decision. No pressure, no stress. Just push someone around for the hell of it. Just arrest someone for the hell of it. Such things happen, and they happen a lot.
Qualified immunity for those cases has got to end, and end now.
Nothing will change until the Police Chief and the local head of the Police Union have to pay the damages personally.
Was she anywhere near the Capitol in DC on that famous day in January?
Every single cop on this detail should face the same charges I would face if I had done this to this woman. Breaking and entering, assault, threatening, destruction of property etc. charges should be brought to each snd every cop.
Until this stupid jackassery starts to hurt the actual parties guilty of this idiocy it will continue. In too many cases the cops are simply the best equipped street gang out there.
Donut watch ping
That’s funny...lawyers had no interest in taking our case after my wife and I were mistakenly swatted years ago. Oh, wait...we’re white. Never mind.