{"id":45101,"date":"2020-08-25T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45101"},"modified":"2020-08-25T08:40:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:40:50","slug":"nytimes-how-reuters-analyzed-court-data-on-qualified-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45101","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: How Reuters Analyzed Court Data on Qualified Immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/2020\/08\/25\/us\/25reuters-usa-police-immunity-methodology.html\">How Reuters Analyzed Court Data on Qualified Immunity<\/a> by Reuters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Our analysis of this data showed the appellate courts\u2019 growing tendency, influenced by guidance from the Supreme Court, to grant police immunity. More than ever, they are ignoring the question of whether cops have violated a plaintiff\u2019s constitutional rights, thereby avoiding establishing a precedent for future cases and making it harder to win cases against the police. The failure to set precedents is particularly challenging for plaintiffs because the data also showed that appellate courts are increasingly requiring a nearly identical case from the past to serve as a precedent that clearly establishes an officer\u2019s actions as illegal \u2013 a high standard that again makes it hard to win against the police.<\/p><p>The appellate court analysis revealed another important finding: Though the U.S. judicial system prides itself on impartiality and the even application of justice across the nation, wide regional variations exist in the rate at which officers win immunity appeals. To probe this phenomenon more deeply, Reuters turned to the district courts, where litigation begins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: How Reuters Analyzed Court Data on Qualified Immunity by Reuters:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45101","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=45101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45102,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45101\/revisions\/45102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}