The Crime Report: Congress Divided Over Measure to End Police Qualified Immunity
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Qualified immunity represents a divide among Congress as they attempt to pass a comprehensive police reform bill. Introduced in June, The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act seeks to eliminate qualified immunity for police. Republicans, who have introduced their own police reform legislation, want to leave qualified immunity intact, but their proposed legislation does share other similar police reform policies with the Floyd Bill.
According to Inimai Chettiar, the federal director of the bipartisan Justice Action Network, lawmakers are considering the idea of a middle ground proposal that would hold police departments or municipalities accountable for misconduct committed by their police officers.