<story><title>To Make Police Accountable, End Qualified Immunity</title><url>https://thebulwark.com/to-make-police-accountable-end-qualified-immunity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>awillen</author><text>Crimes should be charged more seriously, not less, when they&amp;#x27;re committed by police. This is only reasonable - any crime committed by an on-duty officer is inherently more harmful that the same crime committed by a civilian, because in addition to the damage of the actual crime, the officer&amp;#x27;s commission of it also does harm to the public trust in the police and our society.&lt;p&gt;Beyond that, the police should be held to a higher standard because we as a society acknowledge that they are trained well enough to walk around with guns and the ability to deprive people of their freedom (even those who are innocent - if you&amp;#x27;re locked in a cell and later not charged, you don&amp;#x27;t get that time you spent in a cell back). We should be able to charge Chauvin with first degree murder despite a lack of premeditation, because he was trained to know not to do precisely what he did. If I kneel on a guy&amp;#x27;s neck and kill him unintentionally it&amp;#x27;s manslaughter, but if a cop does it, it should be worse because that cop should be expected to know that doing so is not an acceptable form of restraint.</text></comment>
<story><title>To Make Police Accountable, End Qualified Immunity</title><url>https://thebulwark.com/to-make-police-accountable-end-qualified-immunity/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fosk</author><text>I am european, and police in the US really is something else: the mindset, the culture, the engagements. There needs to be a nation-wide police reformation.</text></comment>