The Ledger Thousands of lawsuits each year prove police reform isn't needed? Sheriff Grady Judd’s column ["Does Congress really want professional police reform?" July 5] sounded more like propaganda to help avoid police accountability, stating “There is a big lie being told in the police reform debate: ‘Qualified immunity means that bad cops are immune from civil lawsuits.’ That’s flat out nonsense. Just look at the thousands of lawsuits and millions of dollars a year paid out to civil litigants over alleged police misconduct.” Of course missing the fact that those payouts are paid by taxpayers, not the police officers themselves being held responsible and inadvertently proving that reform is desperately needed and long overdue.