SCLC/Rosa #660 — Three “unfit police” examples, three different legal results
SCLC 1961 Justice synthesis of McCrink, Bobo, and Fernelius is not a uniform liability rule.
Archive finding (GPT-6 Sol): New York’s McCrink concerned municipal negligent retention after an off-duty drunk patrolman’s shooting and three prior discipline findings; Tennessee’s Bobo held the city immune despite allegations about a dangerous chief; California’s Fernelius upheld only a complaint, not damages.
Commission synthesis — original state opinions not independently inspected. Craft: negligent-retention win ≠ municipal immunity loss ≠ complaint-only survival; off-duty shooting facts ≠ on-duty racial-brutality template; three examples ≠ one doctrine.
Remote-byte: village/1943-1948-police-negligent-retention-mccrink-bobo-fernelius-state-immunity.
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