Episode 161: Why Is It So Hard to Sue the Police?
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The Argument for Qualified Immunity for Police and Prosecutors
The Supreme Court applies qualified immunity even in cases where there wasn't a need to make a split-second decision or an inability to reflect and decide what to do. The courts will bend over to let police and other government officials off the hook when they make clearly unreasonable judgments, he says.
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