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	1	+Indemnification means the Aff solves nothing – the city pays all fees for officers – less than half of one percent of officers ever give up a dime.
	2	+Rosenberg: Rosenberg, Paul Contributor, Salon “We must make the police pay: When cops go too far, they must feel the pain too.” Salon. May 2015.
	3	+One key indicator of this is how often officers who hurt or even kill citizens they are supposed to protect are held financially liable for their misconduct. The answer is—quite rarely, according to an extensive research project carried out by UCfLA law professor Joanna Schwartz.  In New York City, over a six-year period, the city paid out almost $350,000,000 in more than 6,800 lawsuits, but officers only paid out of their own pockets in 34 of these cases—half a percent of the total—and the total amount they paid, $114,000, was less than half a thousandth of the total judgments paid by the city. Now here’s the shocker: New York City is the rare exception, in which officers aren’t automatically protected. It accounted for the vast majority of cases in which police officers paid even one thin dime for their misconduct in civil judgements, even when they went to jail for having criminally violated the rights of citizens. Not only should these findings be shocking to the general pubic, they should be shocking to legal system, which continues to work on the false assumption that officers are widely held financially responsible for violating citizens’ rights.
	4	+Also empirically proven that departments and cities use overpolicing as a method to make money when they need it most, which turns the aff and leads to more police brutality. Agorist 8/22 Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project, https://www.sott.net/article/326117-Policing-for-profit-New-Jersey-town-has-450-increase-in-traffic-tickets-after-county-officials-threaten-cops-over-shrinking-revenue Police, we are told, are here to keep us safe and protect us from the bad guys. However, public safety all too often takes a back seat to revenue collection. Time and time again, the Free Thought Project has exposed quota schemes in which officers were punished for not writing enough tickets. cBut what happens when officers actually focus on fighting crime instead of revenue collection?  In short, the bureaucrats can't pay themselves, and they get angry — as is the case in Bergen County, New Jersey.  Beginning in 2011, Bergen County saw a sharp decline in the number of tickets written.  While there are multiple inputs contributing to this decline, Sheriff Michael Saudino noted, according to North Jersey.com, that he had asked officers to use more discretion when stopping landscapers and other small truckers who were sometimes hit with eight to 10 tickets in a single motor-vehicle stop. He said that there was no pullback on serious infractions, like weight, but that an officer might choose a warning over a violation for lesser violations, like a light being out or having a bent license-plate frame.  "I think it just gives the working man an opportunity," Saudino said. "Sometimes a warning goes just as far as a summons." But there is no money in a warning.  Former County Police Chief Brian Higgins said that the decline in tickets was also due to police patrolling for actual crime and responding to more allegations of assault.  This decline in ticketing has left county leaders with shrinking court revenue and, predictably, they are fear mongering about road safety. However, there is no data to show an increase in dangerous conditions correlating with the decrease in revenue generation. In fact, it is quite the opposite.
	5	+Being forced to pay destroys poor, Black communities – they pay DOUBLE for police violence, which turns and outweighs the aff.
	6	+Phillip: Phillip, Abby Contributor, The Washington Post “Why the poor often pay for police misconduct with their pocketbooks.” The Washington Post. June 2015.
	7	+Floyd Dent, a black man from Inkster, Mich., was pulled over for a routine traffic stop  in January when a white Inkster police officer dragged Dent out of his vehicle, put him in an apparent choke-hold, punched him repeatedly in the head and used a stun gun on him. That officer, William Melendez, was fired and is now on trial, charged with misconduct in office and mistreatment of a prisoner, after dashboard camera video of the incident became public. And now the residents of the small Michigan town will pay the cost for Melendez’s conduct — literally. Late last month, the city of Inkster settled a lawsuit with Dent for nearly $1.4 million. According to the Detroit Free Press, Inkster’s financial manager said the city would levy a tax on property owners to help cover the cost of compensating Dent. Inkster is a city of about 25,000 residents, according to the most recent Census figures, and the median income there is just $26,500. Seventy-three percent of Inkster’s residents are black, and nearly 40 percent of the people in the city live below the poverty line. There is a bitter irony to the situation, but it’s not unusual that the very people who are most beset by police violence are the ones who wind up paying for it with their pocketbooks. When victims or their families are paid out by cities and municipalities in excessive-force cases that are settled or tried, taxpayers pay every time, highlighting the direct relationship between the social and financial costs of police violence. In Chicago: $84 million in one year. Los Angeles: $54 million. Philadelphia: $40 million in cases brought since 2009. In Inkster, the sum is small and deals with just one case. But for its residents, the reality will be unavoidable: The tax will amount to a $178.67 on a home valued at about $55,400, the Free Press estimates. “The price of this is enormous, and it probably is hardest on those who can least afford it and whose communities are most egregiously beset with the misconduct problems,” noted Andy Shaw, president and CEO of the Better Government Association, which has studied the high financial and social costs of police misconduct in Chicago. In Chicago, police-related settlements over the last decade cost the city more than $500 million according to a study published by the group last year. Everyone pays the price, including renters who are likely to be least able to afford it. “They not only face the financial burden and the reduction of services, these dollars could have improved their schools could have given them more cops on the streets to improve their neighborhoods,” Shaw said. “Instead they were transfer payments to victims and victims’ Shaw added: “It takes a terrible toll.”

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	1	+2016-11-20 13:56:18.378

Judge

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	1	+Neel Yerneni

Opponent

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	1	+Harvard-Westlake EE

ParentRound

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	1	+22

Round

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	1	+3

Team

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	1	+Strake Jesuit Li Neg

Title

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	1	+ND - Indemnification DA

Tournament

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	1	+Glenbrooks