Originally Posted by
cencal83406
Any particular reason you’d assume you can’t get compensated for a government action shown to have been harmful and incorrect?
Originally Posted by
saltbae
police departments paying millions in settlements every day to victims
That's the fairly rare exception, not the rule. Qualified immunity tends to be the default and you have to prove otherwise.
All governments pretty much have qualified immunity in some form... the degree of that, and the remedies available to the subjects varies widely.
With that said there is a growing movement to limit qualified immunity in the US, since it is generous enough to encourage a lot of abuse.