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 so.
Also, most of the bureaucrats and elected positions have legislatively-codified immunities already, so axing Qualified Immunity will do nothing to them. It is almost exclusively boots-on-the-ground police officers benefiting from it.
To an extent, I understand you hesitation but only to a small degree. For one, the
legal system disintegrating seems a bit of an exaggeration. If you mean civil order, then
maybe that happens. But likely, that's only going to happen in places that are effectively lawless already: LA, NYC, Portland, Chicago, etc. However, for 90% of the country I doubt any such consequence will occur. And to be frank... fuck those shit holes. They
want that outcome so it should be given to them in full.
As for bureaucrats and elected positions having legislatively codified immunity... I believe that's true of the latter but not of the former. Qualified immunity is what protects the bureaucrats and police. Or did I misunderstand what qualified immunity is supposed to do?
Cool, all the police are sued out of existence by everyone they have ever looked at. Who do you get to replace them and how do you convince them to do the job?
Fanatics looking to totally destroy qualified immunity are acting like they've never seen any of the current cop cancel culture the left has pushed for decades.
I've seen the cancel culture. I just think it's an acceptable price. You can disagree with that price if you like. Qualified immunity has destroyed trust in police more than anything else. It has enabled them to commit any number of heinous acts of violence, steal any property they like, punish people they don't like under color of law, and generally abuse their position for decades. It's only been with the influence of the internet that we've been able to prove definitively that this isn't just a problem of
some small number of cops it's systemic.
The current policing structure is fucking broken. It would be better with
nothing there at all than its current incarnation. I would
prefer vigilante justice and having to bear the responsibility of defending myself to police protection. As far as replacing the current police with something else though- I believe that expanding the elected sheriff's office would be better. Additionally, the sheriff system needs to be further atomized. Our population has grown, so the number of sheriffs positions/offices need to be increased and the area they are responsible for shrunk: for a nice round number... let's say increase the number of sheriff's offices to... 2500 citizens per office and limit deputies to... say... 3.