qualified immunity

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/6/2023
  

  Law Prof. Joanna Schwartz on How the Police Became Untouchable

  Policies that protect individual officers from civil liability, and departments from financial responsibility, have developed into a legal architecture of impunity for American police. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  6/23/2020
  

  We Can End Qualified Immunity Tomorrow

  We need not wait for Congress or the Supreme Court to deny police officers qualified immunity when they violate constitutional rights. State attorneys general and city law departments can—and should—lead the charge themselves.