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  1. Morphic Tide

    Protecting And Serving: Cop (mis)behavior and consequences general discussion

    Have fun with the legal system disintegrating in short order to its manpower drowning in frivolous bullshit. Again, the process being the punishment in so many cases means that you need to shield the people keeping laws enforced from the worst of it, or else you stop having anyone around to do...
  2. Morphic Tide

    Protecting And Serving: Cop (mis)behavior and consequences general discussion

    No, codifying it narrowly in legislation to preserve the purpose it was devised for in the first place but stop the constant re-definition as needed to bounce whatever the judge feels like that day is what's needed. Too much of how the judiciary works would turn the process itself into a...
  3. Morphic Tide

    Protecting And Serving: Cop (mis)behavior and consequences general discussion

    That is literally what Qualified Immunity started as. "Officer was doing job in accordance with all guidance from the office on what the job entailed, he's not personally at fault for any issues in the process of upholding the law". Going through those motions still costs time and money, and not...
  4. Morphic Tide

    Protecting And Serving: Cop (mis)behavior and consequences general discussion

    The problem is that the civil suits get absurdly petty, rapidly adding up to a ludicrous amount of money and time because you still have to fight them off one by one unless they are so absurd that they reach the rare bar of being dismissed with prejudice. It would likely be less hazardous to...
  5. Morphic Tide

    Protecting And Serving: Cop (mis)behavior and consequences general discussion

    No, we just need "qualified immunity" actually codified in legislation with clear language explaining the limits of it. Because the utter bullshit that crops up with it revolves around its nature as a construct wholly of the judiciary, thus allowing it to be re-defined by judges at will to...
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