Privileged (police)

ICPPUL > Police > Privileged

 

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.