This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Tuesday, April 27th, 2021.

I'm Caleb Brown.

For police misconduct that violates Americans' rights, ending qualified immunity could open

up challenges to those rights violations in

civil court.

Now Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's and co-chair of the campaign to end qualified immunity, has written a book detailing stories of the injustice

that the qualified immunity doctrine visits upon Americans.

The book is Above the Law, how qualified immunity protects violent police.

We were joined by Cato's Clark Neely and Jay Schweikert.

Before we started recording, Ben, we were talking about the effort to help people understand what qualified immunity is and I

compared it to civil forfeiture which is the first time you explain it

people don't understand people think that you're just

making it up and then you keep explaining it and well almost everybody says well

that's terrible we we should we should get rid of that and And you take to that task, that heavy lift of education with a new book,

above the law, how qualified immunity protects violent police.

What was the goal here? The goal was just to make it

really clear and easy to understand for people about how police get let off the hook for committing crimes that if you or I or any

regular person committed them, they'd be prosecuted and they'd be sued and they'd be found

guilty.

And somehow cops just get away with it because they're cops because what some judge decided that cops,

otherwise known as law enforcement officers are not really supposed to know the law unless

some other cop broke the law.

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