Qualified immunity is for civil repercussions, not criminal. Individual police officers can go to jail for committing crimes in the line of duty. Any civil lawsuits stemming from such acts, however, cannot be aimed at the individual officer, but must instead be against the city/state/feds. I’m skeptical that letting officers get sued for things they can already go to jail for would be a major additional deterrent.

(To be clear, I’m in favor of ending qualified immunity in cases associated with criminal acts, not because I think it will make things better, but because it is fundamentally unjust for the taxpayers to be forced to cover the bill for an individual officer’s illegal acts, when the officer — of all people — should have known that the act was illegal)

>officers can go to jail

just like I can go to Mars. In real world They shoot someone on Live video feed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEjipYKbOOU, or strangle on camera and still walk free.

So if poor police officers abuse people, the victims don't get any compensation? That's not good.

I can't tell if you're trolling, but in case you're not, QI doesn't prevent the victim from seeking restitution, it just puts an umbrella over the officer's personal wealth by protecting it with the department/municipality's wealth.

It's the worst part of what we complained about banks and bailouts in 2008+: it socializes the costs and privatizes the profits/impunity.

That's just another reason for everyone to be recording.