Washington State Law Makes It Virtually Impossible to Charge Police Officers Who Kill

The Washington State Legislature Kills a Proposal to Make It Easier to Charge Police Officersby Ansel HerzThere is an extraordinarily high bar to criminally prosecute police officers when they kill someone in Washington State—one that the legislature decided last week to leave in place.State law requires prosecutors to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that officers used deadly force "with malice." The law, passed in 1986, is one of the most restrictive in the nation. When Seattle police off