Colorado’s Progressive Governor and Legislature Just Ended Qualified Immunity for Police Officers
For years, critics have decried a system wherein individual police officers are, by and large, protected from lawsuits no matter how egregious their alleged behavior. High hurdles for plaintiffs--created and accepted by judges--have also likely discouraged many would-be plaintiffs and attorneys from raising 1983 claims in the first place, qualified immunity's opponents insist.
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