Qualified Immunity:
- Police are the only class of people that can legally claim ignorance of the law
- Police do not enforce the law when other officers violate the law: example NY Police parking impunity.
- Police flip the script: accuse citizen of violating the law by standing on the sidewalk, preventing him from illegally parking on the sidewalk.
- Unless there is an exactly parallel case, with an unreasonably exact set of facts in the same jurisdiction, they can claim qualified immunity (engineer allowed to detain?).
- Many take liberties with the law. They do not respect the law (speeding, parking, etc) when breaking the law is not required. This impunity contributes to attitude that affects their interactions with the public.