Plus, qualified immunity is only for civil precedings. Individual officers are still liable for any criminal actions they take. I see a lot of people say that some officer should be in jail and blame qualified immunity when those two things are not related at all.
I'm not arguing, at all, that police should be immune to prosecution individually. I'm trying to make the point that, if you are trying to hold police individually accountable for their _criminal_ actions, qualified immunity isn't the thing that's preventing that. There's a whole legal system and union/police culture that's responsible for that.
Qualified immunity is thrown around so much in contexts where it makes it clear that people don't understand what it means and gets used, as it was in your comment, as a bogey man that's to blame for all the times police get let off the hook for their misbehavior. All I'm trying to do when correcting you (and others) about qualified immunity is to both redirect your anger and effort into changing something that will actually make a difference and/or prevent you from spending the mental or physical energy chasing a dead end.