This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, February 10th, 2023.

I'm Caleb Brown. The killing of Tyree Nichols is exceptional in a way.

Few defended the actions of the officers who killed him and

after the video quickly surfaced the perpetrators were quickly charged and yet

creating a culture where this kind of brutality simply doesn't occur with such great regularity

will require a heavier lift.

Cato's J. Schweikert says that will mean ending qualified immunity.

This case seems rare in a sense.

We have cases of police brutality,

egregious misconduct on the part of police.

One, this was a specific unit and not just a bunch of cops who happened to be together at one place at one time.

Two, the video was released fairly quickly and three, these no, almost no one

defended these police officers in their activities and they were charged fairly quickly.

And I think some people thought, well's that's good but it still highlights a

substantial problem. Yeah absolutely and I think that's what I think I like that framing that there's there's a way in which this incident is exceptional

And it it highlights and illustrates some very important problems with our current policing system, but it's also, you know, maybe not representative of the sort of ordinary problems that we face in terms of police accountability.

I mean, I think it is, you know, an especially shocking

and egregious degree of unjustified violence.

I think anyone who has actually, you know,

brought themselves to watch the harrowing video, you know, comes to that conclusion.

But I think that in terms of, and you're right, I mean, in terms of response, you know, we did get the video fairly quickly. There has been pretty swift

action in terms of criminal prosecution. And that's, you know, good in a sense, but accountability doesn't just mean can we ensure justice for the people who committed

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