The Importance of Eliminating Qualified Immunity

Ali Vatanka: Qualified immunity has been used to shield police from accountability in the wildest of circumstances. He says it's incredibly difficult to hold officers to account unless they are criminally charged. Since 2014, only about 2% of those incidents result in criminal charges, let alone convictions,. That's according to reporting by Vox. The bill has been at a standstill for over a year and a half, mainly because of lawmakers' inability to agree on changing the legal liability shield for individual police officers known as qualified immunity.