Qualified immunity: 8 myths about why police need it to protect the public

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : While it is possible to hold an officer financially responsible, such an outcome is rare in practice because cities usually indemnify, or offer civil or legal protections to, law enforcement for on-the-job acts.
50% : Law enforcement is allowed to use only the amount of force necessary to subdue suspects, which is how they are supposed to be trained.
46% : Law enforcement recruitment and retention have suffered in recent years for a variety of reasons, but the issues driving that trend have always existed.
44% : She is the executive director of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership, a nonprofit group of officers who want to transform policing by advocating for drug policy and criminal justice reforms.
41% : All of us, law enforcement included, must realize that communities distrust or outright fear police because we are rarely held accountable.

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