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+====The topic frames the issue of plice corruption and oversight in the wrong way; rather than approaching the issue of qualified immunity through a lens of incrementalism and reformism, one needs to approach it through the lens of underlying forces that contribute to police corruption and overreach.==== |
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+"Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony." -Kafka |
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+====One needs to reject all instances of incrementalism in policy-making, these are short-term methods which ultimately fail. Shaylor writes,==== |
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+Shaylor, Cassandra, "Reform and Abolition: Points of Tension and Connection", no date |
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+Because the existing ... of contemporary life. |
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+====A methodology of decarceration is the only solution to the problems that the prison industrial complex poses; the praxis of the affirmative doesn't go far enough. Shaylor further,==== |
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+Rather than proposing ... people in prison. |
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+====The affirmative holds no way of solving for their claims- the state coopts all instances of reformism to meet their own ends, and a limited approach to limiting qualified immunity will do just that. She writes again,==== |
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+In many instances ... a vegitative state. |
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+====Reformism fails in the context of decarcerations. The plan may win an isolated battle, but will lose the war. Alexander 2012,==== |
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+Michelle, "New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness", 2012 |
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+The list could ... in the world. |