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The resignation announcement comes less than a week after the Uvalde City Council released the findings of the independent report it commissioned to investigate the actions of Uvalde police officers who responded to the May 24, 2022, mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. The investigation determined none of the initial five Uvalde police officers who responded to the shooting violated policy or committed serious acts of misconduct, which devastated and outraged victims’ families who attended the hearing.
I agree this is what I want the social contract for police to be, but sadly it is not.
The Supreme Court has said:
We really need to decide what we want Police to do first and then figure out how to reform it. Right now they are basically an armed gang of the state that shakes you down for traffic violations or kills you if you are black or brown.
All of those are symptoms of Harlow V Fitzgerald (1982). That’s when the SCOTUS was unknowingly handed an illegally revised statute, namely §1983 of the Federal Code. The reconstruction Congress of 1871 passed section 1983 specifically to strip all immunities from all politicians, judges, cops, and prosecutors, no matter where those immunities had come from. (Little hint, the Southern states gave those jobs exclusively to white people, and then made them totally immune from consequences.) In 1874 an unnamed clerk of the Congress was tasked with copying The Congressional Record of 1871 into the Federal Register. That clerk illegally removed a 16 word clause from the law, creating the confusion in the ruling of Harlow V Fitzgerald more than 100 years later.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html
Hopefully this can be raised on April 25th, and we can get that ruling overturned.
omg, haven’t read it yet but that is horrifying.
That’s the thing, though. SCOTUS had decided that the purpose of the police is to protect personal property, not people.