Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

The 1AC's understanding of police reproduces the colonial rubric of humanity. Qualified immunity attempts to hold individual officers accountable, naturalizing the systemic violence of colonialism. This eradicates explanatory potential for how policing, imprisonment, and genocide are intertwined under coloniality – kills solvency.

Camille Casmier. 2015 10 June. "The Coloniality of Post-Colonial Police Violence". Pg 1-2. Northwestern English and Film Undergraduate.
In Ferguson, Missouri, a young black man is shot dead in the street
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obligation dissipates and the formation of a violent and militant police force begins.

Political tinkering and state reform locks in genocide committed by the white supremist state. The mystified permanence of domestic warfar is hidden behind reformist policies and justified by the left's continued tolerance of dehumanization of black, brown, and aboriginal bodies. Structures of coloniality present us with unending genocide.

Rodriguez '8 ~2008, Dylan Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor at University of California Riverside, Abolition Now! p.93-94~
We are collectively witnessing, surviving, and working in a time of unprecedented state
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radically addresses the moral, cultural, and political premises of these wars. 

The alternative is epistemic disobedience.

The 1NC enactment of epistemic disobedience ruptures coloniality by challenging the rhetoric of modernity and providing a counter-energy to combat it – we are a necessary criticism of hegemonic structures of knowledge that maintain the liberal promises of reform. We open up the possibility to build knowledge that supersedes Western ideology by creating cracks in academic spaces - spatial paradigmatic breaks of epistemic disobedience.

Walter Mignolo, 2011. "Epistemic Disobedience and the Decolonial Option: A Manifesto" Transmodernity (Fall 2011). Pg 44-50.
But the basic formulation of decolonial delinking (e.g., desprendimiento) was
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then, is clear: the destruction of the coloniality of world power. 

Colonial violence is normalized in educational spaces like debate – it dictates which forms of knowledge and discourses are acceptable.

Sefa Dei and Stanley Doyle-Wood, 2007. "Knowledges and Multiple Knowings" The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology.
As Philip Corrigan (1990, p. 156) has rightly pointed out schools
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of the physical subjugation, language was the means of the spiritual subjugation."

And debate is uniquely key to enact spaces that severe western epistemologies. We must change the content and the terms of the conversation by epistemically and linguistically rupturing colonial formations.

Walter Mignolo. 2009. "Epistemic disobedience, independent thoughts and decolonial freedom."
The introduction of geo-historical and bio-graphical configurations in processes of knowing
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a detached observed but as the intervention of a de-colonial thinker.

Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 4 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Grievability for the colonial subject is damning – it justifies paternalistic saving of the uncivilized savage. Empathy within colonial frameworks is weaponized to mobilize white populations/colonial subjects against the colonized.

Hari Ziyad, 2015. A writer with a passion for gender/queer/race issues. He runs the blog RaceBaitR, and his work has been featured on Gawker, Out, Mic, The Feminist Wire and Young Colored and Angry, "Empathy Won't Save Us In the Fight Against Oppression. Here's Why." http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2015/08/empathy-wont-save-us-in-the-fight-against-oppression-heres-why/
"How do we start? We start with education (…) learn as much as
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with the most deadly effects of transantagonism, poor trans people of color.

Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: Doubles | Opponent:  | Judge: 

The affirmative solvency operates on a fiction of universal citizenship and humanity structured through colonial paradigms. The construction of the prototype human subject necessitates exploitation against the periphery. Juridical attempts to manage who is and is not protected by the government becomes weaponized to fuel white supremacist state. Changing law is pointless unless we change the ideology behind them.

Walter Mignolo, 2006. "Citizen Knowledge and the Limits of Humanity"
When the idea of "citizenship" came into view—and was linked to
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right, the left, and the center) took away from them.

Tournament: Middleton | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

I value justice, as the resolution is a legal question that has societal implications. The nature of justice can be explained by aiming for an equal distribution of opportunities. Justice precludes question of morality since it is a codification of moral sources of action.

The criterion is maximizing societal welfare via utilitarianism.

1) The government must choose realistic policies instead of idealistic ones, which only util can meet as governments only know the general effects of their policies.

Robert Goodin, 1995. Philsopher at the Research School of the Social Sciences, Utilitarianism as Public Philosophy. P. 62-63
Consider, first, the argument from necessity. Public officials are obliged to make
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proceed to calculate the utility payoffs from adopting each alternative possible general rules.

2) No non-arbitrary moral distinction can be made between humans.

analytic

3) All moral systems collapse into an evaluation of end states.

analytic

C1 - Qualified immunity prevents frivolous litigation – limiting it would constrain law enforcement and decrease effective policing.

Andrew King. July 1 2016. Keep qualified immunity…for now. Mimesis Law. http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/keep-qualified-immunity-for-now/11010.
Finally, that brings us back to qualified immunity. If you get rid of
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. Let's figure out a better one before tearing down the old one.

The decrease in proactive policing from limits on qualified immunity amplifies the spike in violent crime which creates structural inequality. Police fear of backlash is directly correlated with unprecedented increasing rates of crime.

George Hofstetter. 2016. Proactive policing and the violent crime rate. Association of LA Deputy Sheriffs.
Director Comey received strong backlash from President Obama for similar remarks in 2015, when
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proactive policing, with a rising violent crime rate left in its wake.

C2 - Insurance companies are provided to municipalities' police departments in the status quo – qualified immunity shields insurers from overwhelming financial consequences. Limiting qualified immunity makes rates go too high and departments switch to individual rather than group plans – that kills loss-prevention incentive because individual premiums are too small and enables municipalities to compensate premiums which doesn't hold police accountable.

Radley Balko, 05/01/16
Balko runs "The Watch" a criminal justice blog for the Washington Post, he is also a published author on issues of criminal justice. "How the insurance industry could reform American policing", The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/03/01/how-the-insurance-industry-could-reform-american-policing/
This part of the argument is a little bit speculative, but I think it's
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lot of money — not to mention lives — in the long run.

Insurance providers can spur reform. Insurers try to limit the liability of police departments. However, a lack of loss-prevention incentives kills that pathway and without insurance policies police will just pay with taxpayer dollars.

Martin Kaste, 04/01/16
"When It Comes To Police Reform, Insurance Companies May Play A Role" http://www.npr.org/2016/04/01/472564258/when-it-comes-to-police-reform-insurance-companies-may-play-a-role
For all the talk in the last couple of years about reforming police, there
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from pushing hard on a law enforcement agency to reform," Schwartz says.