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.