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.
I am pretty much in the same camp, we need the Police, but there are far too many unstable, morally bankrupt and ethically corrupt, in the ranks Nationwide