{"id":37110,"date":"2019-04-05T19:46:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T00:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37110"},"modified":"2019-04-05T19:46:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T00:46:25","slug":"techdirt-appeals-court-says-its-ok-for-cops-to-steal-stuff-from-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37110","title":{"rendered":"Techdirt: Appeals Court Says It&#8217;s OK For Cops To Steal Stuff From Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20190321\/07364341841\/appeals-court-says-ok-cops-to-steal-stuff-citizens.shtml\">Appeals Court Says It&#8217;s OK For Cops To Steal Stuff From Citizens<\/a> by Tim Cushing:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Qualified immunity isn&#8217;t a codified defense. Congress never passed a law granting public employees this exception to Constitutional protections. This exception &#8212; one that allows public servants to avoid being directly sued by the public whose rights they&#8217;ve violated &#8212; was crafted by the Supreme Court. The theory is it&#8217;s too hard for the government to fully comprehend the rights it&#8217;s supposed to be guaranteeing, so there needs to be an escape hatch for government employees.<\/p>\n<p>This escape hatch has allowed an amazing amount of abuse to go unpunished. As long as the government employees were the first to engage in egregious Constitutional violations, they&#8217;re given a free pass. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techdirt: Appeals Court Says It&#8217;s OK For Cops To Steal Stuff From Citizens by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37111,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37110\/revisions\/37111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}