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-====Being a police officer is a difficult job, and police agencies are already struggling to fill vacancies==== |
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-**Christopher 3/5** Burns Christopher. 3/5/16 (Writer for Bangor Daily News,) "Why Maine police departments have a hard time filling jobs" http://bangordailynews.com/2016/03/05/the-point/why-maine-police-departments-have-a-hard-time-filling-jobs/ |
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-known about the recruitment troubles, however, is largely anecdotal. |
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-====Without qualified immunity, people would be strongly deterred from taking on jobs as police officers ==== |
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-**Schott 12** Richard J. (Writer for FBI Bulletin, J.D.) "Qualified Immunity How It Protects Law Enforcement Officers". FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. 2012 |
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-The Supreme Court found no reason to differentiate between the other defendants in this case |
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-while government employees performing the same tasks would be protected by qualified immunity. |
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-====Police are key to mitigating crime==== |
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-**Medved 14** ~~Michael Medved; 8-21-2014; "Slow down, police are the good guys: Column"; http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/08/21/police-militarization-ferguson-crime-violence-justice-bureau-column/14307505/~~ JC |
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-crime rates, and might have even accelerated those improvements in public safety. |
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-====Crime exacerbates poverty==== |
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-**Samenow 14** ~~Stanton Samenow, Ph.D., received his B.A. (cum laude) from Yale University in 1963 and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1968; 12-24-2014; "Crime Causes Poverty"; https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/inside-the-criminal-mind/201412/crime-causes-poverty~~ JC |
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-What may not be apparent is that crime causes poverty. Consider the costs of |
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-it when criminals demolish overnight what they have worked so hard to build. |