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+====Huge litigation costs disable police departments==== |
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+**King 7/1** ~~Andrew; Assistant Prosecuting Attorney. B.A. from The Ohio State University, J.D., summa cum laude from Capital University Law School. Member of the bars of the Supreme Court of Ohio, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and both the United States District Courts for the Southern District of Ohio and the Northern District of Ohio. Andrew is a past associate editor of the Capital University Law School Law Review and is the author of several published legal articles; 7-1-2016; "Keep Qualified Immunity...For Now"; http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/keep-qualified-immunity-for-now/11010~~ JC |
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+Plus, we're told, making lawsuits easier would bring about a policing apocalypse: |
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+figure out a better one before tearing down the old one. |
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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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+====Studies show officers fear litigation, which creates a chilling effect on enforcement==== |
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+**Hawkins and Montsinger 7 **Homer C. Hawkins (Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University) and Catherine Montsinger (Assistant Professor, Criminology, Johnson C. Smith University). "Police and Civil Liability: A Practical Guide to Avoiding Litigation." Law Enforcement Executive Forum•2007•7(1). https://www.iletsbeiforumjournal.com/images/Issues/FreeIssues/ILEEF202007-7.1.pdf |
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+Litigaphobia, also referred to as Police Liability Syndrome, creates a certain paralysis in |
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+become trained to avoid the "chill effect" that litigation may present. |
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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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+If an American institution inspires public confidence through conspicuous, consistent progress over the course |
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+crime rates, and might have even accelerated those improvements in public safety. |
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+====Violent crime destroys the quality of life==== |
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+**Berman 16**. Mark. (Mark Berman covers national news for The Washington Post and anchors Post Nation, a destination for breaking news and stories from around the country.) "Violent crime and murders both went up in 2015, FBI says" September 26 2016 |
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+Homicides in the United States went up by more than 10 percent in 2015 over |
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+us — and so all of us have a responsibility to end it." |
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+====That outweighs—addressing the structural harms of climate change requires no longer thinking of it as a one-time event.==== |
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+**Nixon '11 **(Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pgs. 2-3) |
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+Three primary concerns animate this book, chief among them my conviction that we urgently |
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+in situations where the conditions for sustaining life become increasingly but gradually degraded. |