Tournament: North Little Rock- Wild Cat Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nathan P James | Judge: NA

Frame work.

CP

Governments responsible for police officers should implement the Coalition Against Police Abuse proposal for civilian review which includes-

-establish "Loyal Opposition Policy Review Boards" for civilian oversight of police conduct, policy, and hiring/firing decisions

-The boards should be: elected, paid, and independent of police agencies

-The boards should have special investigators with unrestricted access to crime scenes and the power to subpoena police department personnel and records

-The board should have authority over all claims of police misconduct including: assault, discrimination, infiltration of community groups, sexual harassment, false arrest, and misuse of force. The board should be able to mandate training or discipline for officers up to and including firing, protections for police whistleblowers, and mandate of municipal damages

-Special city prosecutors should be appointed independent of the city attorney's office and the city council who handle all criminal cases against police officers and have full subpoena powers

-staff should be hired on the basis of affirmative action policies

CRBs are a legitimate alternative to immunity reform- their decisions affect the 'clearly established' doctrine which solves the case without judicial change

Meltzer, JD, 14
(Ryan E., Texas LR 92: 1277 Qualified Immunity and Constitutional-Norm Generation in the Post-Saucier Era: "Clearly Establishing" the Law Through Civilian Oversight of Police)
In the course of investigating discrete incidents of alleged police misconduct, civilian external investigatory
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opportunity, especially in the wake of Pearson. (1281-2)

The CP Solves the Case

1. Only EXTERNAL, CIVILIAN oversight can alter police behavior- the aff's internal legal reform drives police misconduct underground- it's a trap

Akbar, 15 – Assistant Professor of Law at Michael E. Moritz College of Law, the Ohio State University (Amna, "National Security's Broken Windows", UCLA Law Review, Vol. 62, pg. 834, May 2015, Lexis)
This Article has attempted to identify the problems with community engagement and counterradicalization in the
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must come from outside, from the communities themselves organizing for change. n325

2. The aff attempts to improve regulation of INDIVIDUAL OFFICERS. The CP changes police culture as a whole. This reduces police opposition and rights violations

Seybold, 15 – JD Candidate (Steven D, "Somebody's Watching Me: Civilian Oversight of Data-Collection Technologies," March 2015, Texas Law Review, Vol. 93, pg. 1029)
First, even a highly effective LOPRB providing quality policy recommendations to a police department
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cannot be completely overcome, LOPRBs can ameliorate this traditional civilian oversight problem.

3. The CRB doesn't have to work- it creates a deterrent effect

Seybold, 15 – JD Candidate (Steven D, "Somebody's Watching Me: Civilian Oversight of Data-Collection Technologies," March 2015, Texas Law Review, Vol. 93, pg. 1029)
3. Individual Deterrence and Systemic Correction. - Finally, civilian oversight has some
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entire police departments rather than only correcting the actions of a singular officer.

4. Civilian review is mutually exclusive and more efficient than court action

Weinbeck, 11 – JD Candidate William Mitchell College of Law (Michael P, "Watching the Watchmen: Lessons for Federal Law Enforcement from America's Cities," William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 36, pg. 1306)
A police department's internal affairs unit, operating on its own, lacks the credibility
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costing the city nothing more than the administrative costs of the investigation. n61

The net benefit is Tech Shift

A. Absent established, oppositional civilian review police harassment will shift to technology based surveillance which avoids rights protections

Seybold, 15 – JD Candidate (Steven D, "Somebody's Watching Me: Civilian Oversight of Data-Collection Technologies," March 2015, Texas Law Review, Vol. 93, pg. 1029)
Technology has provided police departments with powerful tools to collect extensive data on private citizens
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protected as new technologies are incorporated into the daily operations of police departments.

B. Civil rights focus fails- it takes a black and white approach to police conduct that ensures resistance

Schlanger, 15 – Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law, University of Michigan (Margo, "Intelligence Legalism and the National Security Agency's Civil Liberties Gap", Harvard National Security Journal, Vol. 6, pg. 112, 2015, Lexis)
I have suggested that rights discourse tends to sweep under the rug the messiness of
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, but that they may be a useful part of a complicated ecology.

Tournament: Clycone | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cabot Levi Grisham | Judge: idk

Cont 1 is Framework

The starting point of government deliberation has to be the individual and how they relate to the social world around them. Rules only gain their force if they are open to public criticism. This means we need a procedural democracy that transcends the exact content of any moral rule. . Adorno:

Adorno, Theodor. "Education after Auschwitz," Critical Model
Since the possibility of changing the objective—namely societal and political— conditions is
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that associates them with certain mentally ill or psychotic characters, namely schizoids.

Government action is about the process of deliberation not finding an exact rule to follow in every circumstance. Generation of values requires the ability to speak out. . Singer 84

Singer, Joseph William. "The player and the cards: nihilism and legal theory." The Yale Law Journal 94.1 (1984): 1-70.
Moreover, we cannot respond adequately to problems faced in life by generating abstract
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and make us more keenly aware of alternative social arrangements.'85
 

Part 2 – The Police State

Qualified immunity reflects a culture of policing that justifies terrorizing black neighborhoods and lets police know they can get away with anything. Carter '15

Tom Carter – WSWS Legal Correspondent, a lawyer (https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/02/24/cart-f24.html). "US Supreme Court Expands Immunity for Killer Cops." Center for Research on Globalization. November 12, 2015. http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-supreme-court-expands-immunity-for-killer-cops/5488366 JJN
When a civil rights case is summarily dismissed by a judge on the grounds of
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mass repression and dictatorship in response to the growth of working class opposition.

Qualified immunity makes questions of civil rights irrelevant. It shuts down democratic debates about which rights we should value and prevents forms of activism that fight for legal recognition. There is zero difference between qualified immunity and absolute immunity. Hassel '99

Diana Hassel - Associate Professor, Roger Williams University School of Law. B.A. 1979, Mount Holyoke College; J.D. 1985, Rutgers, the State University of New JerseyNewark. "Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity." Missouri Law Review. Winter 1999. http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3402andcontext=mlr JJN
IV. THE COST OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY Qualified immunity has not been universally admired.
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us peace, but it keeps from us the tools required for reform.

Excessive force is the worst manifestation of this form of structural violence – 4^th amendment cases get shut down before they even have a chance. Jeffries '13

Jeffries Jr, John C - David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, the University of Virginia. "The Liability Rule for Constitutional Torts." Virginia Law Review (2013): 207-270. 
Finally, special mention must be made of the case of excessive force. The
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another excessive-force case in that jurisdiction with sufficiently similar facts.

Part 3 – advocacy

The Supreme Court of the United States will limit qualified immunity by altering the 'clearly established' element of qualified immunity to be merely whether it was unconstitutional in civil suits claiming a violation of the 4^th amendment due to excessive force. Wright '15

Sam Wright is a public interest lawyer who has spent his career exclusively in nonprofits and government. "Want to Fight Police Misconduct? Reform Qualified Immunity." Above the Law. November 3, 2015. http://abovethelaw.com/2015/11/want-to-fight-police-misconduct-reform-qualified-immunity/?rf=1 JJN
As usual, I've not buried the lede: that something is qualified immunity reform
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show that that conduct's illegality has already been clearly established in the courts?

The AFF changes police behavior – lawsuits are used by departments to create reform and individuals know their behavior will be watched – they don't' even need to win the lawsuits. Schwartz 10

Schwartz, Joanna. "What Police Learn from Lawsuits." Cardozo Law Review, 2010. http://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/default/files/event/265497/media/slspublic/What_Police_Learn_From_Lawsuits.pdf**. SGK
Lawsuits are widely recognized to compensate and deter; this Article shows suits can also
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to create multiple, new, and even redundant sources of information."253

The AFF changes culture – it is a form of social condemnation that validates the claims of the survivor.  Armacost 98

Armacost 98 Barbara Armacost, Vanderbilt Law Review, April, 1998, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=90852, "Qualified Immunity: Ignorance Excused," WP
If constitutional rights are especially valued in comparison with other kinds of rights, it
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in courts but through public reaction to reported allegations of clear constitutional impropriety.

Tournament: North Little Rock- Wild Cat Classic | Round: Octas | Opponent: Keeton Orrell | Judge: NA
Patriarchy is a system of society or government in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.

Framework

The value is feminism

(Singh No Date) Ivy Singh, teaches Christian Theology at Serampore College. Serampore. "Feminism: Various Approaches and Its Values" http://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/ijt/37-1_058.pdf
Feminism is an awareness of women's oppression and exploitation at work, within the family
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, it is the problem of the whole humanity and of the nature;

Our advocacy is the affirmation of feminist jurisprudence - the insertion of the feminist perspective  into the law is crucial for addressing societal discrimination and harms

 (Juergens 91) Ann Juergens - A.B., 1973, Harvard University J.D., 1976, University of Minnesota Law School Mitchell Hamline School of Law: professor of law, 2015-; co-director of clinical program, 2015-. William Mitchell College of Law: professor of law, 1994-2015; associate professor of law, 1992-1994; co-director of clinical program, 1989-2015; assistant professor of law, 1989-1992; clinic instructor, 1984-1989. Juergens, Ann, "Feminist Jurisprudence: Why Law Must Consider Women's Perspectives" (1991). Faculty Scholarship. Paper 111. http://open.mitchellhamline.edu/facsch/111
A growing number of scholars-and people in general-are asking how the
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judges, legislators all of us-should get ready for the changes.

Rejection of the AFF is anti-feminism – to be complicit with the violence against women is to commit the same degree of violence

Dworkin 83 Andrea Rita Dworkin (September 26, 1946 – April 9, 2005) was an American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography, which she argued was linked to rape and other forms of violence against women. Although a radical, she said there was a need for liberals, but was widely criticized by liberal feminists. At the same time, she maintained a dialogue with political conservatives and wrote a topically-related book, Right-Wing Women. After suffering abuse from her first husband, she was introduced to radical feminist literature and began writing Woman Hating. Coming to New York, she became an activist on several issues and a writer, eventually publishing 10 books on feminism. During the late 1970s and 1980s, Dworkin became known as a spokeswoman for the feminist anti-pornography movement and for her writing on pornography and sexuality, particularly Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1981) and Intercourse (1987), which remain her two most widely known books. She wrote on pornography from a feminist perspective and in opposition to obscenity law, and she worked with Women Against Pornography and Linda Boreman. She considered the pornography industry to be based on turning women into objects for abuse by men. Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon developed a legislative approach based on civil rights rather than obscenity to outlaw pornography and allow lawsuits against pornographers for damages, but their efforts were largely unsuccessful. She testified at a federal commission against pornography, leading some stores to withdraw certain magazines from sale, but a court ruled the government's efforts unconstitutional. Critics argued that no causal relationship between pornography and harm to women had been found. A Canadian court adapted parts of Dworkin and MacKinnon's theory on sex equality, although Dworkin opposed parts of the court's view. Some sex-positive feminists criticized Dworkin's views as censorious and as denying women's agency or choice in sexual relationships, leading to the so-called feminist sex wars.
Feminism is a much-hated political philosophy. This is true all along the
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in any style, is both, means both, and promotes both.

Gendered Violence

And women's experiences of violence in the status quo are minimized by the current justice system
 (Fitz-gibbon and Maher 15) Dr. Kate Fitz-Gibbon is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and a Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Law and Social Justice at University of Liverpool. JaneMaree has degrees in Law and Arts (Hons) (University of Melbourne 1991) and gained her PhD in 1999 (La Trobe University).  Feminist Legal Studies23.3 (Nov 2015): 253-271.
The discursive frameworks that enabled such narratives to occur are unfortunately not unfamiliar: women's experiences of violence have long been 'othered', minimised and misunderstood by the criminal justice system (Douglas 2008; FitzGibbon and Pickering 2012; Hudson 2006; Walkate 2008). Male violence remains intelligible within the operation of law. As a consequence, male intimate partner violence is too often rationalised in our courts on the basis of outdated notions of ownership and violated masculine pride. Women's efforts to confront violence or defend themselves are frequently used to redistribute blame and make the violence equivalent; an outcome in this case as Jade Bownds' behaviour was scrutinised and found 'wanting'. This narrative provided a clear example of the punishing operation of the ''liberal dichotomy of ~women as~… autonomous agents or … vulnerable victims'' (Hunter 2012b, 217). Jade Bownds' efforts at self-defence or potentially even at fighting back meant that she was unable to comfortably occupy the position of idealised victim within the legal narrative. This uncomfortable fit was maintained despite the fact that she was deceased at the hands of Luke Middendorp and that he was completely uninjured in the fatal incident. This representation of the event, and the culpabilities of those involved, also resonates with one of Butler's (2007, xii) observations about the existing ''ways of distributing vulnerability ~and the~ differential forms of allocation'' that create and enforce injustice and other forms of violence and erasure.

And qualified immunity is a perfect example of a gender-neutral equality policy – the law permits an ignorance of the discrimination of women in domestic violence situations

Harper 90 Laura S. Harper, managing editor of Cornell Law Review (at time of publish) Battered Women Suing Police for Failure to Intervene: Viable Legal Avenues After Deshaney v. Winnibago County Department of Social Services , 75 Cornell L. Rev. 1392 (1990) Available at: http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/clr/vol75/iss6/4
Should a battered woman plaintiff proffer sufficient evidence of an equal protection or due process
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hurdle for battered women seeking redress for the deprivation of their constitutional rights.

And qualified immunity tips the balance of power against battered women – gender neutral standards create an overwhelming burden against women involved in domestic violence incidents

Harper 90 Laura S. Harper, managing editor of Cornell Law Review (at time of publish) Battered Women Suing Police for Failure to Intervene: Viable Legal Avenues After Deshaney v. Winnibago County Department of Social Services , 75 Cornell L. Rev. 1392 (1990) Available at: http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/clr/vol75/iss6/4
In domestic violence cases prior to DeShaney, battered women tended to be more successful
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a result of persistent unequal protection by police policies or inadequate police training.

And qualified immunity is up

(Blum, Chemerinsky and Schwartz 14) Karen Blum Suffolk University Law School Professor and Associate Dean, Erwin Chemerinsky University of California, Irvine School of Law Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, Martin A. Schwartz Touro College – Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Professor of Law. Touro Law Center Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 14-32 ~and~ Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 14-26 Qualified Immunity Developments: Not Much Hope Left for Plaintiffs 29 Touro L. Rev. 633 (2013)
Looking through any lens, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Roberts
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of the law, as murky as it may be, is essential.

Domestic assault can happen to anyone, but women are disproportionately affected

National Coalition Against Domestic Violencen 11, http://ncadv.org/learn-more/statistics
Every 9 seconds in the US a woman is assaulted or beaten. • In
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partners. This amounts to 22 of workplace homicides among women.xvi

Thus we advocate for the United States to limit qualified immunity for police officers in cases of intimate partner violence

Solvency

Donning the robes of the feminist judge allows us to realize the heteronormative violence perpetuated by a male-dominated, patriarchial system- the role of the feminist is to be the judge

(Fitz-gibbon and Maher 15) Dr. Kate Fitz-Gibbon is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and a Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Law and Social Justice at University of Liverpool. JaneMaree has degrees in Law and Arts (Hons) (University of Melbourne 1991) and gained her PhD in 1999 (La Trobe University).  Feminist Legal Studies23.3 (Nov 2015): 253-271.
Our objective in rewriting Middendorp was to embed feminist legal analyses of gendered violence against
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) producing male privilege in the courts on both sides of the bench.

Limiting qualified immunity as an act of feminist legal scholarhip breaks the chain of citations which functions to reinscribe power while creating the illusion of law and mobilizing the fantasy of power- vote aff to break the cycle of violence

(Fitz-gibbon and Maher 15) Dr. Kate Fitz-Gibbon is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and a Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Law and Social Justice at University of Liverpool. JaneMaree has degrees in Law and Arts (Hons) (University of Melbourne 1991) and gained her PhD in 1999 (La Trobe University).  Feminist Legal Studies23.3 (Nov 2015): 253-271.
In Bodies that Matter (1993), Butler argues that the law operates using a
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possibility of change in the law and productive collaborations within and across judgments.