Ending qualified immunity is a must. It should be non-negotiable. What is as equally important is the establishment of a nationally unified process to remove the investigation, indictment and prosecution of police criminality from local prosecutors and the police themselves.
Every state should be required to establish an independent entity to perform these investigations and prosecutions. When the state police and state attorneys general are involved the independent entity should perform those investigations or refer them to the DoJ.
Additionally, when police have been accused of criminal acts against other persons including assault, murder, or other civil rights violations, unions must be removed from the process so that the criminal process proceeds.
Police unions get to negotiate with employers over hours, pay, and health care benefits. They have no business negotiating over qualified immunity and whether citizens are deprived of their rights when police commit criminal acts.
In that regard, both republicans an police unions are obstructionists.
Unions cannot be permitted to facilitate short circuiting the rights of victims particularly since unions themselves serve no criminal investigative or law enforcement function.
Unions cannot be permitted to facilitate short circuiting the rights of victims particularly since unions themselves serve no criminal investigative or law enforcement function.
As union contracts and arbitration is between the union and hiring entity, that's an even greater reason to remove the investigations from the local jurisdiction to independent investigative and prosecution agencies.
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