Radley Balko

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · The ICE Age of Surveillance and Enforcement · 28 Jan 2026 podcast

But I will also say that, you know, one of the biggest supporters of this president, one of the biggest supporters of opponents of gun control measures are, you know, police groups and particularly police unions.

I think big big city police chiefs.

Exactly, right.

But the unions are extremely – and also the NRA is one of the most absolutely pro-police organizations around.

Like they can't bring themselves to condemn any of these shootings.

I've often pointed out that one of the weirdest things the NRA ever did was they went to war with Colin Kaepernick.

And Colin Kaepernick was actually a gun owner.

Like they could have actually made some inroads and – but it was more important to them to sort of –

be this, you know, symbolic kind of pro-cop organization.

And I think that nexus is hard to get around, I think.

Right.

Yeah.

I think your question is about sort of reforms and I'll let Joseph talk about the tech reforms because that's a little outside my wheelhouse.

But in terms of police accountability, there are some very basic things I think that we could do, assuming the Democrats take control of the house and –

The Congress, possibly the White House.

I mean, currently, right now, there is no real way to sue a federal law enforcement officer if they violate your constitutional rights, whether they kill you, whether they beat you, whether they racial profile you.

So Vance is wrong.

They don't have absolute immunity from criminal charges.

They can still be charged both federally and locally and with crimes.

But in terms of civil liability – so if you sue a state police officer for violating your rights, let's say they beat you or kill your relative –

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