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+====Limiting qualified immunity just means that more cases will go to trial. When cases go to trial, juries are still more sympathetic towards police officers.==== |
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+**Brown** |
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+"‘Everybody knows policing is violent, and ~~jurors~~ don't want to second guess those decisions,’ says Philip Stinson, a researcher at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and former police officer. |
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+Juries - both grand juries and trial juries - tend to ‘give every possible benefit of the doubt’ when it comes to police officers who have killed while on-duty, Dr Stinson says. But the secrecy of the grand jury proceedings make it hard to know why that was. He adds this tendency to not charge does not exist as strongly for police officers investigated for non-violent crimes, including corruption cases. Comprehensive nationwide numbers of how many police officers kill individuals while on duty do not exist." |
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+And, since this tendency is stronger for violent crimes, which is when culpability is most important, it means that it really doesn’t matter whether these cases go to trial; this is also specific to all of his violent policing impacts. |