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VICTORY: Judge Rules that Woman is Entitled to Damages Under Texas Constitution After SWAT Team Destroyed Her Home While Pursuing Fugitive - Institute for Justice

SHERMAN, Texas—Today, a federal judge ruled that Vicki Baker is entitled to $59,656.59 in damages, plus interest, after a SWAT team destroyed her McKinney, Texas, […]
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Supreme Court allows family’s suit against government for “wrong house” raid to continue

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a family’s lawsuit against the federal government to move forward. With the lawsuit, the family seeks to hold the government liable […]
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Axon’s Draft One is Designed to Defy Transparency

Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found.Our review of...
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Cop’s Lies Sent Innocent Girls to Prison…Still Employed.​

Aug 25, 2025
In this episode, we bring you the disturbing story of St. Paul police officer Heather Weyker, whose lies led to the wrongful prosecution of dozens of people—and put an innocent teenage refugee in jail for two years. Will she ever be held accountable?
Today we’re joined by IJ senior attorney Patrick Jaicomo, one of the leaders of IJ's Project on Immunity and Accountability.
We’re discussing Patrick’s lawsuit against Officer Weyker, how courts have systematically closed doors to government accountability, and how IJ is trying to wrench those doors back open.
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- Hamdi’s Case Page: https://ij.org/case/task-force-immuni...
- James King’s video: • Officers Nearly Beat Innocent College Stud...
 

SWAT Team Arrives 5 Years Too Late, Causes 20K Worth of Damage, Then Refuses to Pay​

Aug 26, 2025 #lawenforcement #bodycam #lawyer
Kim received an alert on her phone that someone was at her front door. To her surprise, it was a SWAT team with their armored vehicle, about to break down her front door and ransack her home. Eventually, detectives with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department realized they had arrived at least 5 years too late to find their suspect. Leaving behind over 20 grand worth of damage to Kim's home, they offered no explanation, no apology, and refused to pay for the damage they caused.
Details: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2025...
Las Vegas Metro PD: https://www.lvmpd.com/home

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South Bend Mom Will Keep Fighting for Compensation after Wrong House Raid - Institute for Justice

ARLINGTON, Va.—Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal constitution does not require the government to compensate […]
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SCOTUS: Post in thread 'Gonzalez v. Trevino - qualified immunity over First Amendment retaliation'

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Final Victory: Castle Hills Vote Confirms Sylvia Gonzalez’s Win Against Retaliation - Institute for Justice

Last night, the Castle Hills, Texas, City Council voted to ratify a settlement agreement that brings to an end the years-long lawsuit filed by former […]
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Well I'll tell you one thing or two based on my own experiences. First off if your expecting 100% perfection your dealing with the wrong simian. I got news for you, cops make mistakes. And I think when you have a bunch of guys with cop hair cuts, cop guns, cop dogs, talking like cops, its pretty safe to assume they are actually cops and maybe you should go along with the program and then get in line to be paid after as long as they don't find anything. Most raids that go bad are based on bad INTEL from bad sources or just getting beat in the flush race to the toilet with the BGs.

Anyway I just love when these gangsters with 5 pages of priors, which we can't release, get on CNN and act like Mother Theresa who just got screwed over. Its precious is what it is.

I never liked raids. Mostly I did them because they wanted a uniform going in first because they prefer getting shot last. Well I never wanted to get shot and certainly not first om some narco's, or tac teams, drug raid. I dont give a shit if some idiot is using drugs and I never much believed in this so called drug war in the first place. 99% of the drug pinches were for bullshit amounts on kids who were bit player's in the game. And thats what the system turned it into, a "game". It wasn't us who turned it into one even tho we got the blame.

The system wanted numbers to justify their budgets and positions.
 
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Minnesota cop who fabricated a sex-trafficking ring won't be held accountable

The officer made up information and lied multiple times under oath but the government says she has federal immunity.
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Related in a big way.

Post in thread 'Border security, immigration & deportations'

Definitely related but in a different light.

Minnesota killings traced all the way to Supreme Court by legal experts​


A legal expert described Monday how the Supreme Court's previous rulings have led to why ICE agents have acted as they have acted "under the made-up banner of 'absolute immunity'" in the wake of the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's Amicus podcast, in a conversation with Alex Reinert, the Max Freund Professor of Litigation and Advocacy at Cardozo School of Law, discussed how...
 
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When the Supreme Court abets lawlessness

Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s rulings, opinions, and procedures on the law, on other institutions, and on […]
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Nothing to see, can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab.

"Ending Qualified Immunity Will Improve Policing"​

Feb 10, 2026
What can we do to bring accountability to policing for the sake of both the public and police officers themselves? Today, we’re talking with special guest Jeff Wenniger, a retired LAPD Lieutenant who spent more than 30 years in law enforcement and is now an advocate for how to rethink law enforcement—grounded in trust, integrity, and true community partnership.
We’re also joined by IJ senior attorney Patrick Jaicomo, who leads IJ’s efforts to dismantle the legal doctrines that block accountability for police officers and other officials.
Today we talk with Jeff and Patrick about why policing needs more accountability, what cops really think about qualified immunity, and how we can make policing better for everyone.

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NoHo Print Shop Owner Asks Supreme Court to Hear Case Seeking Compensation After SWAT Team Destroyed Shop - Institute for Justice

WASHINGTON—Today, a Los Angeles small business owner filed a petition asking the United States Supreme Court to hear his case seeking compensation after a SWAT team destroyed […]
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25 Investigates report sheds new light on growing cost of alleged Mass. State Police misconduct

May 1, 2026
Investigative reporter Ted Daniel breaks down what his team uncovered after reviewing dozens of lawsuits — including cases in which the state police internally ruled that a trooper acted inappropriately, yet taxpayers are still paying for the legal defense and potential settlements. The investigation examines indemnification, qualified immunity, and why public dollars continue to fund these cases.
Find his full report at Boston25News.com: https://www.boston25news.com/news/loc...

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This is an end result.

Police cannot - by themselves - stop crime. There are not enough police, in any society, to force compliance with law. And who would police the police? The obvious answer to that problem, is Haiti's Tonton Macoutes - the brigands who served (serve still?) as law enforcement. They were paid nothing because the Duvaliers had nothing to pay them with - Haitian money was worthless even in Haiti. So they had permission to loot; and the whole nation was their source of pay and plunder.

So. In a functioning society, police are not going to micromanage the populace. It will be token enforcement - limited to sudden crises and extreme cases. Homicide, public shootings, riots.

What made the law work, was PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE AND ADHERENCE to it. SOCIAL mores led to enforcement. You didn't litter, because if you did, old ladies would give you dirty looks, and a burly dock-worker might punch your teeth out. You didn't bully others at work, because if you did, you'd be quickly thrown out of the plant. Unemployed and maybe roughed up by security personnel.

Problems that "require" SWAT wagons like this, seldom got to that point. Read some of William Faulkner's short stories, to see how small-town America dealt with people who were problems. Long before anyone would call 9-1-1, neighbors would get together and run the offenders out of town, or burn them out, or flog them in public.

And no, they were not all "minorities." Another God-damned Leftist LIE that's become ingrained into our engineered culture.

But that cultural resiliance is ALL GONE now. Good thing, we've all been told.

Maybe not. Now the deviants and misfits run wild...and often kill others. And all we can do is call the po-po; and all THEY can do is THIS.

And often, these deviants and misfits call SWAT themselves, to "swat" neighbors.

Police are not the answer.

Judge Lynch had the answer.
 
Well 34 years in LE, now retired, with 31 as a Chicago cop I feel like I have a bit to add to this conversation. First off without QI I wouldn't even get out of the squad car so good luck, your on you own. Now you may say "I'm a big tough guy and carry a gun so I dont need your help"? Well...so was I and I needed help more then a few times. And I locked up a lot of bad acts, believe me, Ive caught and prosecuted all. Murderers, gangsters of the worst type, rapists, armed robbers, burglars, child molesters, you name it and Ive locked them up for it. Night after night after night I hunted them down and took them off the street. And I couldn't have done it without QI, even the chickenshit type we had.

They once sent some 22yo lawyer kid to rep me in a use of force beef who said to me, "so what do we do now"?

And yeah I had very few beefs considering my activity which included being forced to use force many times, including lethal. But I did have some and even tho I was in the right my ass was hanging by a thread because the system is really set up to screw the cops. I bet you didn't know that right ? I'm not complaining, I chose the life, and with it all the good and all the bad. And unfortunately, yes, we had some who didn't deserve to wear the uniform and some who were dumb as a box of rocks.

Thank affirmative action for that one. For hiring and promoting we had some basically on the level of moron but all that was outside my power and for the most part we had decent people no different then any of you except we got thrust into situations where doing our job will never make us popular and even with the minimal QI we had plenty who just didn't much want to get involved because some scumbag life long criminal found a lawyer to sue us after getting pinched once again in his life journey of crime.

So the Police can make things safer but we need the public to do it. Cameras are a good thing because they protect us so we can protect the public better. We need victims to show up to court, we need people to call us when they see something wrong, we need to build better relations with the community, and we definitely need to retain QI . Without it and without fairness in the system for the Police we'd just be dancing around everything out there.

I can tell you this much. I wouldn't take the job right now. Were I a young man I'd look elsewhere for a career and for sure I wouldn't come on in a shooting gallery like Chicago.
 
What the above demonstrates, is how we're moving from what was a civilized nation, to a tyranny-by-morons. A tyrannical anarchy.

Not unlike the African failed nation-states.

Unfortunately, it's overlaid with Technocracy, so as to give the tyrants an edge in stamping out resistance.
 
Well I'm not going to go thru this rather sad thread because I think I know what I'll find and thats that most people, at least almost all non-LE people, think QI is automatic whenever there is a beef against a cop. The idea of which is kind of hysterical in the first place so let me laugh first, ha ha. No QI is not a license to murder, beat, arrest unlawfully and all kinda stuff like that. In fact the vast majority of Police want nothing to do with you or your problems. At least after they get some time under their belt.

Qualified Immunity is just that. The complaint against you has to be QUALIFIED for the city, county, state, federal, bunch you work for to provide you a lawyer, advice, and limited insurance, as you go thru the legal process.

In other words they can tell you to go pound sand and don't even have to give an excuse why. Which leaves you having to get your own Lawyer, put your house up for bond, kids to eat Alpo, standing in front of a judge providing all your assets, and kneeling before Jesus begging him to please don't let them screw you.

And you might have done something wrong but without intent because were human and make mistakes just like you do without meaning harm. Doesn't matter, the city doesn't care what you meant, they just don't want to pay to cover you so they make you bend over with the big one OTW. Ive known guys who gone thru it and really got screwed and of course some that had it coming. But best hope for it not happening on a slow news day when you get splashed onto the front page of some slimy cop hating ass wipe rag for the Mayor to read in his Limo first thing in the AM.

I'm lucky. I was in the right and they worked out OK but the city was never obligated to cover me. And in fact the coverage was slightly above the level of shit. And I know this, I never, ever want to get involved in anything again and sure as hell never want to pull a gun out again. I',m quite content being a long retired fat ass ex cop. My war is over.
 
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