“Why would cops quit en made? It’s not that cops ever end up personally liable for those judgments. The municipality indemnifies then whether or not QI is a defense. It will just incentivize cities to hire cops less prone to gratuitous violence.”
Making Police Chiefs personally liable and the Mayors who appoint them and the union bosses who protect violent officers would accomplish more than going after the officers.
And the judges that sign off on ‘no knock’ warrants- if they aren’t 100% sure there is enough information to potentially kill everyone in the house (wrong house with an armed citizen residing in it and responding appropriately to such a raid) then that judge should be at risk of losing everything just as if they pulled the trigger on a sleeping, innocent Citizen themselves. Same with any upper officers.