Tournament: Contact | Round: 1 | Opponent: contact | Judge: contact
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Tournament: Scarsdale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Princeton CP | Judge: John Staunton
Court Clog
Thomson 9: Linda Thomson. January 22, 2009. US Supreme court: Police are protected from lawsuits. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705279304/US-Supreme-Court-Police-are-protected-from-lawsuits.html?pg=all. RW
The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with police officers who raided a suspected drug dealer's home in Millard County and seized evidence without a warrant and were later sued by the man for financial damages because he contends they violated his Fourth Amendment constitutional right against unreasonable search and seizure. The high court ruled that the police did have governmental immunity against civil lawsuits. However, the Supreme Court was silent on the issue of any alleged constitutional amendment violation. Wednesday's ruling will have wide-reaching implications for law enforcement officials throughout the nation. Previously, when a civil rights case of this type was filed the courts had to take a two-pronged and often lengthy approach to resolving it — first litigating it to determine whether a constitutional violation had in fact occurred and then checking to see if the law was "clearly established" in case law. This ruling gives greater leeway to federal district courts and appeals courts in deciding whether to use the two-pronged approach or decide if there is a better way to handle the case. "The court's unanimous decision clearly vindicates our position that our officers should not be liable for money damages when the law was not clearly known," said Salt Lake attorney Peter Stirba, who represented Millard County. "Our officers believed their conduct was constitutionally permissible at the time, thus the very purpose for qualified immunity is to protect police officers from personal liability unless th

QI prevents frivolous trials- that clogs courts
Beerman 09 Beermann, Jack Michael. (Professor of Law and Harry Elwood Warren Schoolar, BU School of Law_ “Qualified Immunity and Constitutional Avoidance” Boston University School of Law Working Paper No. 09-51. December 2, 2009  NB
This two-pronged formulation of the qualified immunity standard36 lasted only seven years.
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purpose for qualified immunity is to protect police officers from personal liability unless th

Police misconduct cases clog courts
Osnos 2k: Evan Osnos, Tribune Staff WriterChicago Tribune. “City to try mediation of cop brutality cases”. November 15, 2000. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-11-15/news/0011150315_1_civil-rights-cases-mediation-police-department. RW
Hoping to avert costly legal battles over alleged police brutality, the City of Chicago
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that is less that we have to put into them," Hoyle said.

Court clog leads to poor decisions and hurts the minorities the worst- turns case
Brunt 15 Alexa Van Brunt, "Poor people rely on public defenders who are too overworked to defend them" Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/17/poor-rely-public-defenders-too-overworked, June 17, 2015.
Money can buy you a great defense team, but what if you can’t afford
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This group bears the brunt of our public defender systems’ underfunding and overwork.

Turns and outweighs the case

A. Caseloads take longer which limits the aff’s solvency because police won’t be held accountable if judges can’t do their jobs 

B. Hurts the minorities the most because they are left with public defenders who don't do their job either

Tournament: Scarsdale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Princeton CP | Judge: John Staunton
Departments DA
Qualified immunity avoids court clog – it deters frivolous lawsuits, and makes it easier for courts to dismiss the case.
Qualified immunity doctrine prevents longer trials and uniquely enables federal and district courts—civil trials are uniquely bad
Thomson 9: Linda Thomson. January 22, 2009. US Supreme court: Police are protected from lawsuits. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705279304/US-Supreme-Court-Police-are-protected-from-lawsuits.html?pg=all. RW
damages because he contends they violated his Fourth Amendment constitutional right against unreasonable search and seizure. The high court ruled that the police did have governmental immunity against civil lawsuits. However, the Supreme Court was silent on the issue of any alleged constitutional amendment violation. Wednesday's ruling will have wide-reaching implications for law enforcement officials throughout the nation. Previously, when a civil rights case of this type was filed the courts had to take a two-pronged and often lengthy approach to resolving it — first litigating it to determine whether a constitutional violation had in fact occurred and then checking to see if the law was "clearly established" in case law. This ruling gives greater leeway to federal district courts and appeals courts in deciding whether to use the two-pronged approach or decide if there is a better way to handle the case. "The court's unanimous decision clearly vindicates our position that our officers should not be liable for money damages when the law was not clearly known," said Salt Lake attorney Peter Stirba, who represented Millard County. "Our officers believed their conduct was constitutionally permissible at the time, thus the very purpose for qualified immunity is to protect police officers from personal liability unless th

Court cases against the police kill city budgets and harm local economy.
Elinson and Frosh 15 Zusha Elinson (Zusha Elinson is a U.S. news reporter based in Northern California) and Dan Frosch (Dan Frosch is a general assignment reporter for The Wall Street Journal's Southwest Bureau.), 7-15-15, "Cost of Police-Misconduct Cases Soars in Big U.S. Cities," WSJ, http://www.wsj.com/articles/cost-of-police-misconduct-cases-soars-in-big-u-s-cities-1437013834(VR 10/31/16)
The cost of resolving police-misconduct cases has surged for big U.S
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death after being put in a police chokehold last summer sparked widespread protests.

Police budget cuts turns and outweighs the case- multiple warrants

A. Higher crime rates in impoverished areas
Jackman 10 Tom Jackman (Washington Post Staff Writer ), 9-30-2010, "Police fear crime increase as recession saps forces," No Publication, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/29/AR2010092907447.html(VR 10/31/16)
Police chiefs across the country say that they are feeling the effects of the nation's
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.6 million. "We won't have enough officers," he said.

B. Lack of Police training- leads to more misconduct and police brutality.
Hollowell 11 Perry W. Hollowell (Perry W. Hollowell recently retired as Chief of Police, but has also been a Sheriff, Chief Deputy, Captain, Lieutenant and Sergeant while serving with three jurisdictions. Along with a thirty-five year law enforcement career he has also had a successful military career retiring after twenty-two years of service. A strong training background includes training law enforcement and military on both a national and international basis. Along with educating thousands of police and military, Perry has been adjunct faculty for three colleges. He has also pursued numerous hours of professional development programs to include the FBI National Academy, U.S. Army Sergeant’s Major Academy and a Master of Business Management Degree. His training, experience and education has provided the opportunity to train in a wide variety of topics.), 2011, “Are Budget Cuts Killing Police Officers?” N.p, http://www.in.gov/ilea/files/Are_Budget_Cuts_Killing_Police_Officers_11-01-11.pdf (VR 11/1/16)
While it can be argued that budget cuts are making life more dangerous for law
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could easily see how an officer under stress would revert to his firearm.

C. Incentivizes unjust arrests to make more money
Benson 15 Thor Benson (Thor Benson is a traveling writer based in Los Angeles, California. He regularly contributes to ATTN:, and his writing has also been featured in The Atlantic, Wired, Rolling Stone, Vice, The Verge, and elsewhere. ), 5-16-2015, "The 4 Disturbing Reasons Why Police Obsess over Petty Crime," ATTN:, http://www.attn.com/stories/1663/police-departments-prioritize-drug-crimes-over-violent-crimes(VR 10/1/16)
Why so much attention on low-level drug offenders? One major reason is
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enough overall arrests, the department can lose some of its federal funding.

Tournament: Princeton | Round: 3 | Opponent: Devansh Chuahan | Judge: Paul Erlanger
Interpretation: Debaters must disclose all broken cases (ACs, NCs, DAs, CPs, and kritiks) on the NDCA wiki under their own name if they have disclosed in the past/have internet access. In this disclosure, they must post cites, tags, and first three and last three words of all cards read. Debaters may begin disclosing at any point during the season, but they must disclose all broken cases at least  30 min before this round in order to meet my interp. They must disclose regardless of whether the tournament requires disclosure.

Tournament: Princeton | Round: 2 | Opponent: Andrew Hong | Judge: Ryan Monagle
Civil lawsuits employ neolib to put an asking price on people’s suffering. 

Abel 81
Richard L. Abel, Prof of Law @ UCLA, ’81 (British Journal of Law and Society 8:1, “A Critique of American Tort Law,” jstor)
Finally, tort law responds to intangible injury by extending that fundamental concept of capitalism
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the compensation system is working well if anything, too well. 116

Link: Their emphasis on police brutality as a singular issue disguises the problem. This turns the aff- police violence is a direct result of capitalism. Inhumane treatment of blacks including their deaths and their rate of incarceration is caused by capitalism. 

Hedges 15
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/corporate_capitalism_is_the_foundation_of_police_20150 705 Chris Hedges is a columnist at Truthdig.com He has published 11 books including a New York Times Bestseller: “Days of Destruction”
Our national conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction. It is
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, as they have for decades, and disproportionately locked in prison cages.

This turns the aff – police violence is a direct result of neoliberalism. A failure to recognize that makes violence inevitable.

Lane 7/21
Alycee Lane (Alycee J. Lane is a former professor who taught African American literature and culture at UC Santa Barbara.), 7-21-16 “Violence, Death and Our Neoliberal Police,” CounterPunch, http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/21/violence-death-and-our-neoliberal-police/
If we examine through the prism of neoliberalism the killing of Philando Castile – that
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this was true as well for Officer Darren Wilson of Ferguson, Missouri.

Alt

The alternative is an embrace of class-consciousness as a method of critiquing neoliberalism’s grip on policing. Different groups must coalesce together to resist neo-liberalism which seeks to divide them. 

LaVenia 15
Peter A. LaVenia PhD in Political Science from the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the Secretary of the NY State Green Party and manages Matt Funiciello’s campaign for Congress. JANUARY 16, 2015 “Police Behavior and Neoliberalism” http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/16/police-behavior-and-neoliberalism/
The cause of impotence on the part of elected officials even in the face of
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see nothing but equivocation by local officials and big city mayors.