Re:No Qualified Immunity for Cops Who Made Stuff Up to Justi...
by pseudalopex on Sunday February 14, 2021 @05:23PM
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That's basically tautological. Controversy just means people disagree. It doesn't say anything about which cases are controversial and why.
Re:No Qualified Immunity for Cops Who Made Stuff Up to Justi...
by AnthonyMouse on Sunday February 14, 2021 @10:22PM
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The point is that uncontroversial (i.e. the cop was definitely in the wrong and basically everybody agrees) cases exist, but nobody talks about them because there is no controversy because there is nobody prominent to argue the other side because it's indefensible.
And a system where the cops in those cases end up with unaffordable "malpractice" premiums and have to quit would be a benefit.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage...
If there is no case to be made in defending a cop, nobody wants to make it. But then it isn't a story, because it's only a story if it's a controversy.
That creates the impression that many people are defending all of these bad cops in the clear cases, when they're really only defending them in the controversial cases.