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  • This house believes that the Black Lives Matter movement should campaign for abolishing rather than defunding the police

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    The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is a social and political movement which protests institutional racism with a particular focus upon protesting racially motivated violence against African Americans by the police. In 2020 parts of the BLM movement began campaigning for the defunding of police. If successful defunding the police would mean that law enforcement budgets would be dramatically cut with fewer police officers. Ideally these budgets would be reallocated into public institutions. Other parts of the BLM movement believe that the police should be abolished altogether. If successful abolishing the police would mean that current law enforcement systems would be replaced entirely by alternatives to policing. These alternatives to policing may include a greater focus upon preventative measures through public health initiatives and community-based organisations and different approaches to conflict management through for example community patrols or ‘peace officers’ specialist crisis response teams or community mediation.The BLM campaign for defunding the police has had moderate success with a number of American cities decreasing funding to law enforcement agencies such as in New York Los Angeles and Minneapolis.

    Asia Schools Open - Summer 2021 · Open Semis · 2021-07-24

  • This house believes that the Black Lives Matter movement should campaign for abolishing rather than defunding the police

    Infoslide

    The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is a social and political movement which protests institutional racism with a particular focus upon protesting racially motivated violence against African Americans by the police. In 2020 parts of the BLM movement began campaigning for the defunding of police. If successful defunding the police would mean that law enforcement budgets would be dramatically cut with fewer police officers. Ideally these budgets would be reallocated into public institutions. Other parts of the BLM movement believe that the police should be abolished altogether. If successful abolishing the police would mean that current law enforcement systems would be replaced entirely by alternatives to policing. These alternatives to policing may include a greater focus upon preventative measures through public health initiatives and community-based organisations and different approaches to conflict management through for example community patrols or ‘peace officers’ specialist crisis response teams or community mediation.The BLM campaign for defunding the police has had moderate success with a number of American cities decreasing funding to law enforcement agencies such as in New York Los Angeles and Minneapolis.

    Asia Schools Open - Summer 2021 · Open Quarters · 2021-07-24

  • This house believes that the BLM movement should prioritize the fight for economic reparations over the fight for radical police reform.

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    18th BDC Pre-Worlds 2021 · Octofinals · 2021-07-23

  • This house will acquit Raymond Reddington of the United States Department of Justice and appoint him as their Confidential Information Officer.

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    Raymond Reddington, a former U.S. Navy officer who later topped the FBI's list of most notorious criminals, voluntarily surrendered to the FBI after decades of successfully defending his independence from the FBI, CIA, Interpol and many other agencies. He told the FBI that he had compiled a list of the most dangerous criminals in the world, which he had compiled over the years, and that he was willing to inform the FBI about their activities in exchange for immunity. In addition to impunity, the FBI must be allowed to continue its criminal operations and, in many cases, assist, as it must maintain contact with the criminal underworld by maintaining its criminal identity in order for the information on that list to be accurate. At the same time, no one will know that Reddington has such an agreement with the United States government.

    BDS Fundraiser: Save A Mother · 2 · 2021-07-22

  • This house believes that leaders of police forces should be elected by the local communities they serve

    Gadjah Mada Debating Championship 2021 · Open Quarters · 2021-07-18

  • This house believes that police commissioners should be directly elected by their local community.

    Korea WUDC 2021 · ESL Final · 2021-07-08

  • This house believes that states should classify organized crime syndicates as terrorist groups*

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    *classification as a terrorist group would legally allow law enforcement to pursue tactics such as targeted extra-judicial killings reducing barriers to law enforcement gathering evidence using military forces criminalizing membership etc

    Korea WUDC 2021 · 9 · 2021-07-08

  • This house believes that race based social movements in the US (e.g. Black Lives Matter) should actively encourage African Americans to join the police force (Protect and Serve)

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    Since the murder of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson the national police department in the US has stepped up efforts to recruit African American Hispanic Latino and other people of colour into the police force however so far only with lacklustre results

    HELP University's Asian Secondary Schools Online English Debate Challenge 2021 · Open Semis · 2021-07-08

  • This parliament will gain the loyalty of the criminals by killing a policeman as an ayon.

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    Ayon works as an undercover officer for the police and only his handling officer knew his identity. He provided information to the police about their misdeeds by associating with the local gangs. Due to this many times the police could catch the big criminals but his identity was always kept secret. At one point, the criminal gang suspects him of being an officer and gives him the option to either kill a policeman and remain loyal to the criminals or the criminals will kill him.

    EBDP Club Novice Nationals 2021 · Open Quarters · 2021-06-09

  • This house would abolish consorting laws

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    A consorting law makes it a criminal offence for a person to continue to associate or communicate with at least two people who have previously been convicted of an indictable offence, after receiving and official police warning

    UNSW May Mini · Novice Final · 2021-05-22

  • IMPROMPTU: Each state should introduce individual identification codes for law enforcement agents and officials.

    Olimpiadi 2021 · Open Semis · 2021-04-23

  • This house would enforce a rotating national service for law enforcement

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    "A rotating national service is one in which citizens who meet basic requirements are randomly selected to serve in a Government service, such as the military, for a fixed period of time. After the fixed period of time, they will be replaced by other randomly selected, qualified citizens. The Police force consists of two departments: 1. Law enforcement 2. Investigation"

    Chanakya National Law University BP · 4 · 2021-04-19

  • This house would grant access to governments to the internet search history of its citizens.

    Cambridge Schools All-Ireland Regionals 2021-22 · 4 · 2021-04-16

  • This house would join Stonewall

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    The Stonewall Riots were a series of violent demonstrations in the 1960s carried out by members of the LGBT community in the face of police violence against the community. During the 1960s, the United States experienced a system of intense legal and social exclusion from the LGBT community. For the purposes of this debate, you are a LGB cisgender person of relevant position in your social environment, currently living in a façade marriage, posing as heterosexual.

    Brasil Queer Open · 4 · 2021-04-10