Tournament: Any | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any
A) Interp—both debaters must disclose at least the following from all AC’s and NC’s read at TOC bid distributing tournaments on the Nov/Dec 2016-2017 qualified immunity: first, complete tag lines to all cards; second, first 3 words and last 3 words of all cards; third, the standard used to delineate what counts as offense and not offense with the claims to the warrants for that standard and fourth, taglines to all evidence read.

Tournament: Dowling | Round: 4 | Opponent: WDMV MS | Judge: Brad Noethe

Status quo policing is oppressive – the police protect the ruling class.

Johnson 16 (Dr. Cedric Johnson, Cedric Johnson is the author of Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics and editor of The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans. He is also a representative for UIC United Faculty Local 6456, "Ending the Violence."  Jacobin Magazine. LEFC July 20, 2016.)
Although the slogan "Black Lives Matter" has become a powerful rallying cry,
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urban agenda, addressing deep inequality in wages, education, and health.

Small-scale reform like the aff cedes the existence of police.  There is a conflict of interest between the police and the rest of society – they must protect themselves at all costs, for they hold the power of enforcement.  Any attempt to reform within society fails to recognize that the system is working just the way it's supposed to be. HOTCHKIN '15:

(Joshua Hotchkin "Accountability Is Futile – Abolish the Police" LEFC NOVEMBER 12, 2015)
Accountability is futile. There really could be nothing so simple to understand yet so
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not meet its own requirements. It will always come back to this.

Competition -
Analytics

Tournament: Dowling Catholic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Evanston LT | Judge: Forgot
====Litigation is high now- limiting qualified immunity explodes the amount of cases, chilling police officers and increasing crime.  ====
Rosen 05, Michael, Attorney in San Diego, JD Harvard Law, A Qualified Defense: In Support of the Doctrine of Qualified Immunity in Excessive Force Cases, With Some Suggestions for its Improvement, http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1899andcontext=ggulrev
This effect dovetails with a growing tendency toward "depolicing" that has become prevalent
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delicate balance society seeks between forcefully fighting crime and respectfully treating all citizens.

DOJ studies prove that chilling the police causes a huge increase in homicides and crime

Felton 16 Et Al, Ryan, Lois Beckett, Jamiles Lartey, 'Ferguson Effect' is a plausible reason for spike in violent US crime, study says, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/15/ferguson-effect-homicide-rates-us-crime-study
A new justice department-funded study concludes that a version of the so-
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unarmed black citizens causes the police "to disengage from vigorous enforcement actions".

Tournament: Dowling | Round: 4 | Opponent: WDMV MS | Judge: Brad Noethe

Increased civil litigation against police decimates municipal budgets – especially in cases of police misconduct and brutality

Elinson and Frosch 15 (Zusha Elinson and Dan Frosch, Cost of Police-Misconduct Cases Soars in Big U.S. Cities, WSJ, LEFC July 15, 2015)

For most of the police departments surveyed by the Journal, the costliest claims
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money into that fund to pay for the lawsuits has really been challenging."

Turns case— lack of city and department funds increase policing and fines.

Kopf 16 (Dan Kopf, data journalist. The Fining of Black America, Priceonomics, LEFC June 24, 2016)
In March 2010, years before Ferguson, Missouri, became known for sparking the
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to exploit residents for fine revenue are those with the most African Americans.

Tournament: Dowling Catholic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Evanston LT | Judge: Forgot

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.

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.
One key indicator of this is how often officers who hurt or even kill citizens
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false assumption that officers are widely held financially responsible for violating citizens' rights.

This destroys poor, Black communities – they pay DOUBLE for police violence, which turns and outweighs the aff.

Phillip: Phillip, Abby Contributor, The Washington Post "Why the poor often pay for police misconduct with their pocketbooks." The Washington Post. June 2015.
Floyd Dent, a black man from Inkster, Mich., was pulled over for
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to victims and victims' Shaw added: "It takes a terrible toll."

Tournament: Dowling | Round: 4 | Opponent: WDMV MS | Judge: Brad Noethe

Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Qualified Immunity is legal.

Totenberg 14, Nina, and Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza, Supreme Court Upholds Law Enforcement's Qualified Immunity, 2014, NPR, http://www.npr.org/2014/05/27/316484853/supreme-court-upholds-law-enforcements-qualified-immunity
In two decisions handed down Tuesday, the Supreme Court made it more difficult for citizens to sue law enforcement officers for their conduct. Both decisions were unanimous. The central issue in both was the doctrine of "qualified immunity," which shields public officials from being sued for actions that fall short of violating a clearly established statutory or constitutional right.

Doing the affirmative kills judicial review — it obliterates the precedent that the government has to listen to court decisions, allowing congress to pass laws that interfere with judicial review.

Nathanson 86, Edmond, Law clerk for Court of Appeals, Congressional Power to Contradict the Supreme Court's Constitutional Decisions: Accommodation of Rights in Conflict,
http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2115andcontext=wmlr
In his dissenting opinion in Morgan, Justice Harlan suggested that the Court's recognition of
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way "ratchet" theory, has provided a continuing source of controversy. 

Their removal of judicial review is problematic – allows Congress to create oppressive laws – Brown v. Board of Education proves. 

Somin 16, Ilya, The Supreme Court Is a Check on Big Government, Protection for Minorities, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/07/06/is-the-supreme-court-too-powerful/the-supreme-court-is-a-check-on-big-government-protection-for-minorities
The Supreme Court gets many things wrong. Yet America would be a far worse
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War II. Weakening the court would increase the incidence of such outrages.

Tournament: Dowling Catholic | Round: 5 | Opponent: WDMV TF | Judge: Joe Rankin

Their second Habermas evidence indicates that legal indeterminacy is bad.  However, that is exactly how things are – any conclusion can be reached through the law.  They view the law as objective – but this is not the case. HASNAS:

John Hasnas (associate professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University). "The Myth of the Rule of Law." Wisconsin Law Review. LEFC 1995. http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
Two of the students, Arnie Becker and Ann Kelsey, resolve to make a
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themselves if they are ever to learn to "think like a lawyer."

Any possibility of progress through the rule of law invests in a myth. The law is not neutral but inherently political; acceptance of the rule of law makes you complicit in the state's oppression. Hasnas 95:

John Hasnas (associate professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University). "The Myth of the Rule of Law." Wisconsin Law Review. 1995. http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
In his novel 1984, George Orwell created a nightmare vision of the future in
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free society requires the abandonment of the myth of the rule of law.

Legal reform is a palliative measure that sutures superficial instances of white supremacy while amplifying their underlying causes. Spade 13:

(Dean, Associate Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. "Intersectional Resistance and Law Reform" (Summer 2013), Signs vol. 38 no. 4, University of Chicago Press)
Critical race theory brought to legal scholarship a critique of formal legal equality and the
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.  Limiting qualified immunity only ignores the larger structural problems with the law.)

The alternative is embracing law's indeterminacy. The rule of law only has coercive power when people think it objectively protects them. Objective law is a paradox with subjective application. Hasnas 95

John Hasnas (associate professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University). "The Myth of the Rule of Law." Wisconsin Law Review. 1995. http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
Let us assume that I have failed to convince you of the impossibility of reforming
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the general public. It could not serve as a system of justice.

The role of the ballot is to endorse the discourse that most authentically represents underlying power –micropolitics are key to real, macro change while fiat removes the self from our discussion. Nayar 99

~Jayan Nayar (School of Law, University of Warwick), Transnat'l L. and Contemp. Probs. 599, Fall, 1999~ SF
The "world," as we perceive it today, did not exist in times
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critique, it is necessary to consider the "technologies" of ordering.