host: john next up in parkville, maryland. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to be a little more specific on the conversation that just occurred with your guest because i do think it's important. so i have a question for your guest. how would you define the duty of a police officer? guest: i think about this constitutionally so i what -- caller: well use the analogy of a heart surgeon. that's why i want to be more specific. a heart surgeon has a duty to practice up to a standard of care. and if something goes wrong and yet he practiced up to the standard of care he is effectively immune from the consequences. if you are a doctor and you see evidence of child abuse you are duty bound to report that. if you do so and you are wrong, you are immune from subsequent action against you. so my question is i think we spend a lot of time on the authority of police officers which i agree is quite broad and but we spend not much time on trying to define what is the duty of a police officer. i think the woman before me was getting to that point a little inartfully w

to serena in parkville, maryland. go ahead.r: i also agree it should be pretty much a blanket discontinuation, and i think if we, if people looked at everybody as people rather than as black people or whatever, we could do a lot better. host: i want to let you know about our coverage plans today as leigh capitol police officer billy evans will be honored at the u.s. capitol, lying in honor of the rotunda of the u.s. capitol. like it's underway today. our live coverage will begin today. that will begin at 10:30 eastern. we expect many members of congress and president biden expected to be up there later this morning as well. life here on c-span at 10:30 eastern. our question this segment about qualified immunity, some comments on social media, on facebook. sally says don't end it, it won't be long before it will be hard to recruit anyone for police. just fire idiots like him. there are many good cops. there are bad eggs in every profession. bad teachers, lawyers, doctors, cetera -- etc. don says no, they are hired to do the dirt

host: john next up in parkville, maryland. good morning. caller: good morning.e a little more specific on the conversation that just occurred with your guest because i do think it's important. so i have a question for your guest. how would you define the duty of a police officer? guest: i think about this constitutionally so i what -- caller: well use the analogy of a heart surgeon. that's why i want to be more specific. a heart surgeon has a duty to practice up to a standard of care. and if something goes wrong and yet he practiced up to the standard of care he is effectively immune from the consequences. if you are a doctor and you see evidence of child abuse you are duty bound to report that. if you do so and you are wrong, you are immune from subsequent action against you. so my question is i think we spend a lot of time on the authority of police officers which i agree is quite broad and but we spend not much time on trying to define what is the duty of a police officer. i think the woman before me was getting to that point a little inartfully which is how