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Do you support qualified immunity for police officers?

Qualified immunity is a defense that police officers cannot be sued for misconduct if they were unaware at the time that their conduct was illegal and if there is no previous legal case with similar facts that ruled that officers may not engage in that conduct. Proponents argue that more intense criticism of police will disincentivize officers from doing their jobs resulting in crime rates going up. Opponents argue that police officers should be held more accountable for misconduct.

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Response rates from 7.8k Ohio voters.

37%
Yes
63%
No
23%
Yes
53%
No
8%
Yes, and provide more training and education for police officers
10%
No, and increase the personal liability for misconduct
6%
Yes, but only for officers that have a clean record of no complaints

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 @8PRWMDM from Minnesota  answered…5yrs5Y

No, and provide more training and education for police officers

 @8PRH69S from Oregon  answered…5yrs5Y

No, but provide more training and education for police officers to prevent similar situations.

 @8PXYHF2 from Pennsylvania  answered…5yrs5Y

No, and abolish the police

 @8PGGCFM from Pennsylvania  answered…5yrs5Y

Don’t know.

 @8QCW4R8 from California  answered…4yrs4Y

No, but provide more training and education for police officers

 @8QDHLKC from Maryland  answered…4yrs4Y

No, provide more training and education for police officers.

 @9DCTXHH from Oklahoma  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, but provide more training and education for police officers, so misconduct rarely happens.

 @9DRFWHY from California  answered…2yrs2Y

No, nobody is above the law

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…12mos12MO

“Throw out everything you thought you knew about this election.”

By Chuck Todd, NBC News:We are getting awfully close to the moment when it might be fair to say, “Throw out everything you thought you knew about this election.”We are now going from a presidential campaign that left the public disinterested and at times disgusted it to a campaign that I could see generating an electorate that might be as interested, if not more so, as in 2008 and 2020, two of the highest-turnout elections in the last 50 years.If the Democrats do end up with a new nominee — and it’s looking more likely by the hour that they will — that, too, is likely to suddenly trigger interest in what the new nominee has to say, which in turn could engage the electorate in a way that the pre-debate version of this campaign just didn’t.But before we get to this campaign reset, the Democrats have to figure out what their ticket looks like and, more important, how quickly they can get their ticket selected and certified by the party.As of this writing, my sources indicate to me that about the only folks who are still trying to rationalize Biden’s staying in this race all share the last name of Biden, with the possible exception of Biden’s longtime chief political strategist, Mike Donilon — who, as the gatekeeper of the data that makes it to the president's desk, is starting to get blame along with Biden and his family for Democrats’ being in this position.

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