FERGUSON

[Jenny A]

Cities and law enforcement get sued all the time. That website isn't saying it is against the law to sue or that those filing the complaint never win. When you say "high standard" what that really means is our social structures are lopsided.

It still does not address that our laws need to change and our oversight system needs to be balanced.

This is what I mean by a high standard:

police are immune from suit for the performance of their jobs unless willful, unreasonable conduct is demonstrated. Mere negligence, the failure to exercise due care, is not enough to create liability. Immunity therefore means that in the typical police-suspect interaction, the suspect cannot sue the police. Civil rights remedies come into play for willful police conduct that violates an individual's constitutional rights.

And I didn't say it was a crime to sue the police only that it's hard to win for the reasons stated above. And actually, I agree with that standard.