Sheriff Mark Lamb

You're more afraid of what the mobs will come in and do and the havoc they will reap on you if you arrest the wrong person.

So what you just do is you just release them.

And it creates just chaos.

And what it does is, to us, it disincentivizes us.

It makes us not want to go out and do our job.

And then you take places like Illinois or St.

Louis or some of these places.

I don't know if St.

Louis is, but states are trying to remove qualified immunity from police.

Well, qualified immunity, they've now painted as this, oh, cops can do whatever they want and nobody ever holds them accountable.

That's not true.

Like if qualified immunity protects you when you do your job.

If you break the law, qualified immunity does not protect you as a police officer.

But if you are doing your job, if I go and I'm doing CPR on an elderly lady and I crack her rib cage while I'm doing it, I am doing my job.

They can't come back and sue you and take your house and take everything you've tried to build over the last several years or throughout your career in an instant.

When you take away qualified immunity, what you're doing is you're exposing police officers to civil lawsuits when we do our job.

If I walk in, I rough somebody up.

Now, all of a sudden, my agency determines or the county determines I was out of line or I didn't follow policy, they can sue me.

And now I'm at the risk of losing what I've tried to build, my house, my car, my money, my bank account.

So what incentive do cops have to respond to calls anymore?