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  • This house, as Filipino feminists, regrets the promotion of Col. Rejano

    Infoslide

    On October 15, 2020, Col. Angela Rejano has been named Chief of Malabon Police, and the first female police chief in the history of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO)

    Debatable Open · Open Octos · 2021-01-09

  • Resolved: The National Security Agency should end its surveillance of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.

    January · N/A · 2021-01-01

  • This house prefers the Defund the Police movement in the US.

    Infoslide

    The 'Defund the Police' movement intensified after the protests over the George Floyd case defends removing funds from the police to allocate them to improving social services and replacing police officers with social workers, except in the most extreme cases. The alternative model proposes to maintain the funds and work on a modification of the police body, including new positions and people that diversify the profiles of the average police officer and instruct current police officers in greater social awareness. Assuming these models are mutually exclusive.

    BP URJC 2020 · 1 · 2020-12-16

  • This house believes that states with very corrupt police should dismantle the police and allocate funds for the public to have private security measures.

    Ryoso Cup 2020 · 4 · 2020-12-07

  • This house, as X, will go to the police and snitch on the friend

    Infoslide

    X’s friend tells them that they committed a crime. They explain that they are having trouble sleeping at night and feel you are the only one they can trust with their confession. A few days later, you read in the paper that someone has been arrested for your friend’s crime.

    La Liberta · Open Final · 2020-11-20

  • This house believes that police officers in the United States should not carry firearms on regular patrol

    Umeko Cup 2020 · Open Semis · 2020-11-05

  • This house believes that parents from marginalised minority communities in the West should teach their children to believe in relying upon their own communities as opposed to state authorities (e.g. police forces).

    SIDO 2020 · Open Octos · 2020-10-23

  • This house regrets the recent disbandment of Front Pembela Islam by the Indonesian government

    Infoslide

    Front Pembela Islam (FPI) is an islamic organization in Indonesia. FPI originally started as a civil group that positioned itself as an Islamic moral police after the end of Soeharto's regime, which suppressed Islamic values. On December 7 2020, six FPI members were killed by the police. Shortly after, the organization was disbanded as signed on Joint Decree by the ministers and head of government officers namely Minister of Internal Affair, Minister of Law and Human Rights, Supreme Judge, Head of Police. FPI is widely seen as an opposition movement. It is also active in defending Muslims' rights i.e. protest at the Indian embassy regarding violence towards Muslims in India

    Argumentum X ADC Pro Ams · 5 · 2020-10-17

  • This house believes that the BLM movement should campaign for the inclusion of more African American police officers instead of the abolition of the police force

    St Cats Debate Tournament · Open Semis · 2020-10-16

  • This house (Black Lives Matter Movement) will actively ednorse imagery of police officers taking the knee

    Infoslide

    The police system in the USA has been charged with institutional racism both in its origin as a tool of slave owners as well as in its evolution to its present form. Today countless examples and statistics show how the Black community is still disproportionately targeted by police brutality despite multiple endeavours of procedural reform and sensitisation training. Taking the knee is a symbolic form of silent protest adopted by the anti-racism movement beginning with NFL player Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem. In his words “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of colour”. Recently police officers have been seen at BLM protests taking the knee in solidarity.

    The Contemplative Dialogue Debate Tournament 2020 · Open Quarters · 2020-10-10

  • This house would legalise vigilantism in high crime areas

    Infoslide

    Vigilantism is the private enforcement of state laws. The legalisation of vigilantism would allow proportionate responses to crime by individuals and communities. For example, reasonable incapacitation to make a citizen's arrest (and taking them to a local police station); surrounding the home of a violent offender to enforce a house arrest; etc. Disproportionate responses (e.g. killing a drug dealer, not in self-defence) would not be encompassed under this policy.

    Royal Rhetoric's Wom*n's Open · 2 · 2020-09-28

  • This house believes that evidence illegally acquired by the police should be accepted in court.

    2020 KIDA'RT · 4 · 2020-09-28

  • This house would ban plain clothes policing

    Infoslide

    Plain clothes policing is routine policing where officials do not wear clothing that immediately identifies them as police. It does not refer to undercover policing, where police take on false identities to gather evidence.

    Wolce Pre-ABP · 2 · 2020-09-19

  • This house as the U.S. would “reform the police” rather than “defund the police”.

    Infoslide

    Reform the police is to transform the values culture policies and practices of police organizations so that police can perform their duties with respect for democratic values human rights and the rule of law. Defund the police is to divest funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support such as social service youth services housing education healthcare and drug rehabilitation.

    Gemini Cup 2020 · Open Semis · 2020-09-12