On Sat, 08 Aug 2020 14:47:33 -0500, Jim Joyce
wrote:

On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 09:26:18 -0700, Bob F wrote:

On 8/7/2020 9:49 PM, T wrote:
On 2020-08-07 00:04, wrote:
"58 percent of respondents who identified as police officers said they
view Black Lives Matter favorably."

Majority of Police Officers See Black Lives Matter Positively, Support
Reforms
Newsweek Magazine - July 8, 2020
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https://www.newsweek.com/majority-po...s-poll-1520131



Depends on how you ask the question.Â* Not a lot
of folks are against better policing.Â* Very
few officers are for brutality.

Hmmmm.Â*Â* I thing all police should have body and
dash cams.Â* Does that make me a BLM supporter?

Would you support laws that lying on police reports results in police
being fired?

Being fired should be instant and automatic. On a case by case basis,
prosecution of the ex-officer should be considered.

Some jurisdictions are looking at getting rid of qualified immunity. I'd
support that because although the concept sounds good on its face, it's
been severely stretched and corrupted over the years. These days it's used
to excuse all kinds of misconduct.

Qualified immunity:
In the United States, the doctrine of qualified immunity grants government
officials performing discretionary functions immunity from civil suits
unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established
statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have
known"


I was covered by the state's sovereign immunity law when I was
inspecting for them but it was made clear if I was doing anything that
was against the law or even written policy, that was out the window
because I was a contractor, not in the union, so I would not get a
union lawyer to invoke that immunity.
The reality, it meant nothing. I would still have to hire my own
lawyer and fight anything that came up. Nothing ever did.