This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, August 26, 2024.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Police, prosecutors, and other law enforcement authorities are protected from various forms of accountability when they engage in misconduct.

At a live recording of the Cato Daily Podcast at Cato University earlier this month, I sat down with journalist Radley Balco to discuss the

myriad ways law enforcement evade accountability and some basic ways to avoid

missteps and change how police misconduct is addressed.

So my friend Patrick Giacomo is an attorney at the Institute for Justice.

He represented a man by the name of James King.

Yeah. I heard about that case. And this was a man who, in a case of mistaken identity

by, I believe, members of a task force who beat him within an inch of his life.

And this is another fugitive apprehension task force of the U.S. Marshal

And so James King who Fugitive Apprehension Task Force of the U.S. Marshal Group.

And so James King, who was a guest on the Cator Daily Podcast a couple of years ago, detailed a pretty horrific

story of he thought he was being carjacked and spent a good deal of time in the hospital and

as you as the in the case that you have detailed,

he had a really hard time holding

any of those police officers accountable.

Again, not criminally, but just to take them to court

to assert the fact that he had been wronged

and that he is entitled to some relief for having been wrong.

For his medical bills and nothing else.

If nothing else, his medical bills, and I wonder do we have a sense of the scope of that problem that is to say somebody

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