Hillary: Let's make it easier for minority suspects to sue the police

It makes perfect sense to me that a candidate for president who has a long history of breaking the law - including her blatant disregard for national security in the way she handled sensitive information via a non-secured homebrew e-mail server, not to mention lying to the American public about a terrorist attack that killed four people - would be interested in ways to make life more difficult for law enforcement. Who hates the police more than dishonest people who consider themselves above the law and constantly rely on legal maneuvers to get away with living that belief?

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Also, when your entire public life consists of spouting meaningless bromides based neither on sincere principle nor any real knowledge, you end up proposing things like banning racial profiling by police, which makes you sound pretty stupid because laws are already in place that do this. So how do you recover from that? No problem. Send your campaign staff out to explain that you want to go even further and expose every police department in America to frivolous lawsuits:

She proposed a legal ban on racial profiling by police. Clinton hasn't detailed how her idea would go beyond existing law, but her campaign cited previous congressional proposals that would make it easier for alleged profiling victims to recover damages from government agencies in civil court.

It's not hard to see where this takes us. Every minority in America who has an encounter with police that doesn't result in the person being charged will now be able to run to race-mongering Al Sharpton types and get access to lawyers who will file suit - probably for a fee of one-third of their clients' award and/or settlement - against the police merely for questioning their clients. Police departments will now have to choose between risking litigation or jeopardizing their ability to solve cases, because every minority they might want to question will now present a litigation risk. That's the direction in which Hillary wants to move the needle with respect to crime and justice in this country. Not only are the police getting attacked in the media every time they have to use force to corral a hostile suspect, but now they would have to face lawsuits just for deciding to question certain people. Here's a brain-teaser: Would it be worse if she had actually thought this through and believed it was a good idea? Or is it worse the way it really is, which is that she doesn't know or care one way or the other if this is good policy, but says it anyway to appeal to cop-hating left that makes up so much of the Democrat primary voting base? Why does anyone take this woman seriously?