Decades of Supreme Court decisions have converted 'qualified immunity' from a common-sense rule into a powerful doctrine that deprives people injured by police misconduct of recourse
Decades of Supreme Court decisions have converted 'qualified immunity' from a common-sense rule into a powerful doctrine that deprives people injured by police misconduct of recourse
www.nybooks.com Why Aren’t Cops Held to Account? | Linda Greenhouse
In 1987 lawyers for a Black inmate on Georgia’s death row presented the Supreme Court with evidence of the extreme racial disparity in the state’s

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(Great article)
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Thank you for this!
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