Tournament: Dowling Catholic Paradigm | Round: 4 | Opponent: Homewood-Flossmoor MB | Judge: Richard Shmikler
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1. TURN: Limiting qualified immunity makes things worse because lawsuits are vastly expensive. Many victims of police violence are poor; telling them that the remedy is to file an expensive suit that will take years to finish and will almost certainly go against them only further victimizes them.
Higdon 10 (Higdon, Woodrow L. Investigative Photo Journalist, Former Police Officer "Public Corruption Cover Up Through Civil Litigation." GTI News, March LEFC 2010)
The so called "Civil and Criminal Justice Systems" in the United States,
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of the most effective public corruption cover up tools available to public agencies.
2. Turn- Lawsuits will lead to the public perception that plaintiffs are looking for a payout and allows police officers to be viewed as victims. This turn is supercharged by the fact that police are seldom tried successfully, meaning the public just sees innocence. Also means the turn outweighs your offense on probability since recourse is near impossible.
Patton, Alison (JD, UC Hastings College of Law) "Endless Cycle of Abuse: Why 42 USC 1983 Is Ineffective in Deterring Police Brutality, The." Hastings LJ 44 (1992): 753.
Even in the face of seemingly indisputable evidence, such as a videotape, an
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it serves to legitimize their behavior as perfectly acceptable, normalizing racist culture.
Tully 16 ~(Author Attorney Joseph Tully) Police Brutality: Fed by Prosecutors, DAs, Judges, Tully andamp; Weiss 9-12-2016~
Police officers and prosecutors work closely together as a team, a team required to
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lie, use excessive force, withhold evidence and carry out false arrests.
Rosenberg 08 (Gerald N., University of Chicago political science and law professor, Ph.D. from Yale University, member of the Washington, D.C. bar, The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring about Social Change?, p. 427)
If this is the case, then there is another important way in which courts
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structurally constrained from serving their needs, providing only an illusion of change.
Joanna C. Schwartz 10, 2010, "What Police Learn from Lawsuits," Cardozo L. Rev,
Police department closed claims reviews – like root cause analyses – sift through all available
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for fear that internal findings will compromise the defense of the case.236
