THE DOCTRINE IS RAMPANT JUDICIAL ACTIVISM, NOT ONLY AS APPLIED TO POLICE BUT AS APPLIED TO ALL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS: Federal judge urges Supreme Court to overturn qualified immunity.
Here’s the opinion.
Related: Orange County Register: Qualified immunity makes a mockery of justice. Abolish it.
To the extent that government employees enjoy any special immunities — and I think the Titles of Nobility clauses say they shouldn’t — that immunity should be created by legislatures, not made up out of whole cloth by federal judges.