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  • 5 - Unqualified Immunity

  • Shawn E. Fields
  • Book:
    Neighborhood Watch
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    09 June 2022, pp 104-124

  • Summary

    This chapter challenges legislative and judicial efforts to immunize police officers from all but the most outrageous misconduct by finding “objectively reasonable” virtually all uses of force by officers and providing “qualified immunity” in the rare instance when the use of force is deemed excessive. This failure to provide any sort of check or deterrent against the use of force by armed, implicitly biased officers improperly strengthens the weapon in weaponized racial fear and further empowers bias-motivated individuals to act on their biases.