Individual officers who enforce unconstitutional laws need to be sued. Playing Gestapo would get old real fast if they knew their uniform and their "just following orders" excuse won't protect them from financial ruin. The left is constantly using lawsuits to strike fear into their opposition. It's high time the right starts doing the same.
While we can stop LEOs from the unconstitutional bs, unfortunately they are protected from having to bear the financial burden of lawsuits against them. I hope I'm wrong about this. We need class action lawsuits, worded so that everyone affected in the State can share the cost of the one legal action. That's how we win.
We also need to name the Governor; we CAN sue against their own personal wealth. There are maybe 10 that aren't guilty of mass murder.
This is incorrect. Persons who deprive civil rights/liberties can be pursued in civil court/held personally liable for damages. A badge does not protect them. “Just doing my job” or “Following orders” is an insufficient defense.
It's called "qualified immunity. It protects police against legal retaliation.
Its krptonite? CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. "Qualified immunity" tends to go out the window ion civil cases where citizens have had their rights clearly violated.
Civil lawsuits against police departments, and INDIVIDUAL OFFICERS.
That's wonderful news, if true! How come the few times Courts have ruled against the Police, it's always the town that winds up paying the settlement, and never the cop?
You don't need to be a "Constitutional Expert" to have a basic junior high understanding of the bill of rights, especially when the single most important aspect of your job is defending those rights.
It’s my opinion that EVERYone should be Constitutional experts. It takes 30 minutes to read one of the most important documents ever written by man. Yet the amount of people who have never actually taken the time to sit and read the words for themselves, whether they already know how it works or not, is shocking
Your point is well taken. And most of you reading this are too young to understand a classical education in the grade schools. I had one such education. I think it 08th grade; all 20 some kids had to memorize a portion of the US Constitution. The the first student with the opening lines; recited his part. When he stopped the 02nd student took up the refrain; and on to the end. Was it effective? You may judge from the fact, that for me, 08th grade was back in President Ikes' era!
I have yet to hear a cop say that "defending someone's rights" is anything they value.
If you listen when they read you your rights what they're really saying is they think it's their job to get you to say the sky is blue and grass is green, and then twist that around somehow to hurt you with it.
I mean.... It seems highly inappropriate to be a law enforcement officer if you don't know the law, right? The Constitution is the highest law of the land.
SCOTUS has ruled on this. Cops can be completely wrong re: the law and they're fine. All they need is something akin to a "sincerely held belief" with a reasonable explanation and they can do no wrong.
Individual officers who enforce unconstitutional laws need to be sued. Playing Gestapo would get old real fast if they knew their uniform and their "just following orders" excuse won't protect them from financial ruin. The left is constantly using lawsuits to strike fear into their opposition. It's high time the right starts doing the same.
While we can stop LEOs from the unconstitutional bs, unfortunately they are protected from having to bear the financial burden of lawsuits against them. I hope I'm wrong about this. We need class action lawsuits, worded so that everyone affected in the State can share the cost of the one legal action. That's how we win.
We also need to name the Governor; we CAN sue against their own personal wealth. There are maybe 10 that aren't guilty of mass murder.
This is incorrect. Persons who deprive civil rights/liberties can be pursued in civil court/held personally liable for damages. A badge does not protect them. “Just doing my job” or “Following orders” is an insufficient defense.
Correct.
It's called qualified immunity, and violations of CIVIL RIGHTS in particular are kryptonite, legally, to this "qualified immunity."
Correct.
It's called "qualified immunity. It protects police against legal retaliation.
Its krptonite? CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. "Qualified immunity" tends to go out the window ion civil cases where citizens have had their rights clearly violated.
Civil lawsuits against police departments, and INDIVIDUAL OFFICERS.
That's wonderful news, if true! How come the few times Courts have ruled against the Police, it's always the town that winds up paying the settlement, and never the cop?
Example -
You don't need to be a "Constitutional Expert" to have a basic junior high understanding of the bill of rights, especially when the single most important aspect of your job is defending those rights.
It’s my opinion that EVERYone should be Constitutional experts. It takes 30 minutes to read one of the most important documents ever written by man. Yet the amount of people who have never actually taken the time to sit and read the words for themselves, whether they already know how it works or not, is shocking
Your point is well taken. And most of you reading this are too young to understand a classical education in the grade schools. I had one such education. I think it 08th grade; all 20 some kids had to memorize a portion of the US Constitution. The the first student with the opening lines; recited his part. When he stopped the 02nd student took up the refrain; and on to the end. Was it effective? You may judge from the fact, that for me, 08th grade was back in President Ikes' era!
I have yet to hear a cop say that "defending someone's rights" is anything they value.
If you listen when they read you your rights what they're really saying is they think it's their job to get you to say the sky is blue and grass is green, and then twist that around somehow to hurt you with it.
I have yet to hear a cop say anything about "defending someone's rights" being something they value.
I mean.... It seems highly inappropriate to be a law enforcement officer if you don't know the law, right? The Constitution is the highest law of the land.
SCOTUS has ruled on this. Cops can be completely wrong re: the law and they're fine. All they need is something akin to a "sincerely held belief" with a reasonable explanation and they can do no wrong.