This is not rocket science. We need to apply common sense here.
They want ethical, honest, and diligent police officers. They want police officers. They want public safety.
I think you need to look at the facts by piercing those statistics that you have suggesting broad definitions.
Yes, Representative Owens, it would.
public safety is the primary value without which nothing else in a community can happen.
I will tell you that it has been a position of Members on this Committee whom I quoted earlier who have wanted to defend the police.
We cannot turn a willful blind eye to that fact.
Revising the qualified immunity doctrine is a step in the right direction.
I mean, that is just nonsense.
This doesn't really require much analysis. It's a very common-sense solution to a real problem.
The denial of justice in those kinds of circumstances due to this doctrine of qualified immunity is an injustice.