If everything is a national emergency, nothing is.
I am appalled at how well "flood the zone" and "move fast and break things" works to destroy a nation. If sanity ever returns, the response to either action needs to be the death penalty. I don't know how to properly write a law for that, but it is clear to me that any lesser response will only cause the bastard to back up, and try again.
We have no guidance or direction on what we need to do,
Wrong. You have plenty of guidance. It's called "the law" and you went to school to learn how to understand it. If your people get instructions to violate the law, the instructions are invalid.
You know you can get sued without actually doing anything wrong, don't you?
I think they have a legitimate concern, and a few protections to keep them from having to go to court (again) every time they write someone a ticket might be in order.
But that shouldn't be enough to override the need to hold police accountable for their actions.
Quite a few, starting with, "how is that relevant?"
Just because someone is the moral equivalent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch does not inherently mean that they are also the intellectual equivalent of the same.
If everything is a national emergency, nothing is.
I am appalled at how well "flood the zone" and "move fast and break things" works to destroy a nation. If sanity ever returns, the response to either action needs to be the death penalty. I don't know how to properly write a law for that, but it is clear to me that any lesser response will only cause the bastard to back up, and try again.