Qualified Immunity For Police
Qualified immunity is a U.S. legal doctrine that protects police officers from personal civil liability unless they violate a “clearly established” constitutional or statutory right that a reasonable officer would have known about.
Police qualified immunity originated with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1967 decision in Pierson v. Ray, which first established that officers could avoid civil liability unless they violated “clearly established” constitutional rights.
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