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  • That we would use this technology to make preventative arrests

    Infoslide

    In the future, a technology can assess, with 100% accuracy, whether an individual will commit a crime within a decade of the assessment. This assessment updates universally at the beginning of each decade, and includes the future charge but no specific details

    University of Sydney Union Open 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-03-03

  • This House Prefers a world with the mass replacement of human police officers with Robocops to a world with no Robocops.

    Infoslide

    A EU-backed agency has developed and programmed Robocop. Robocop is a fully autonomous robot police officer that is an advanced artificial intelligence-driven humanoid machine equipped with a range of sensors, cameras, and communication devices. It is capable of independently patrolling designated areas, detecting criminal activities or safety hazards, enforcing laws, issuing warnings or citations, and making arrests when necessary, all without direct human intervention. It can analyse data in real-time, communicate with human operators or other law enforcement units, and adapt its responses based on the situation, all while adhering to programmed ethical and legal guidelines. Where replacing armed officers, Robocops can be equipped with non-lethal or lethal weapons systems, designed to be deployed in accordance with programmed rules of engagement.

    LSE OPEN 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-02-24

  • This house, In high crime areas, W 'reform' the police rather than 'defund' the police.

    Infoslide

    Reforming the police means transformation of values and practices on which police operates on with respect to human rights and rule of law. Defunding means diverting the funds to non-policing forms of public safety like drug rehabilitation centres, youth services.

    Shivaji Bhonsle English Parliamentary Debate 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-01-20

  • This House would outsource the capture of elusive criminals to bounty-hunters

    Infoslide

    A bounty hunter is an individual hired to tracked down and apprehend fugitive in exchange of reward. Their independent nature of work operate separately from law enforcement agencies. For the context of this debate, elusive means difficult to find, or catch. They are, in a word, slippery.

    Indo-Pacific World School Debate Open 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-01-19

  • This house prefers a world in which every high-crime city had a Batman.

    Infoslide

    Batman is the alter ego of billionaire Bruce Wayne, the owner of Wayne Enterprises (the Amazon of Gotham). Batman is a crime-fighting vigilante inspired by the death of his parents, largely engaging supervillains including, but not limited to the Joker, Bane, etc.

    Seagram’s IV 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-01-13

  • This house would redefine the criterion for excessive force in the US to include the benefit of hindsight

    Infoslide

    In police brutality cases in the USA, the question the juries are asked to answer is whether they think a police officer was justified in using excessive force given his perspective at the time and without the benefit of hindsight. (e.g. whether the individual had a gun or not is immaterial and the only thing that matters is if the officer acted reasonably) This means that only evidence that is admissible and shown to the jury is evidence pertaining to the facts available to the police officer while using excessive force. Academic research has shown that when using this criterion, juries consistently conclude that officers harming or killing black individuals acted reasonably in almost all circumstances.

    Vitark 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-01-01

  • This House Supports widely adopting citizen enforcement.

    Infoslide

    Citizen enforcement means policies that encourage ordinary members of the public to photograph and submit evidence of unlawful behaviour. For example, a citizen that produces evidence of a parking violation might be given a small cut of the resulting fine.

    Sydney Mini 2023 · Partial Quarter-Finals · 2023-12-16

  • This house believes that civil rights activists should push to expand municipal liability to include vicarious liability for the unlawful conduct of police officers rather than removing qualified immunity defenses for those officers

    Infoslide

    Vicarious liability refers to the liability held by a party (such as an employer) for the unlawful actions of a subordinate or associate. Qualified immunity is a kind of legal protection that shields government officials from being sued on the grounds that they infringed upon someone's rights. Lawsuits are only permitted if it's proven that the official breached a well-defined law or constitutional right.

    Yale Intervarsity 2023 · Quarterfinals · 2023-10-27

  • This house believes that the BLM movement should centralise and enforce a strict organisational hierarchy

    Infoslide

    Black Lives Matter (BLM) refers to a decentralised social and political movement that seeks to highlight discrimination and racism in society. Today, the BLM movement often have autonomous regional branches with contrasting views on certain political matters i.e. the use of violence against the police, financial allocations and even the general trajectory of the movement.

    Seri Iskandar Debate Open 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-10-14

  • This house believes that minority communities should actively discourage their children from pursuing careers in state security apparatuses (i.e. the military, the police, immigration and border control)

    14th CNLU Parliamentary Debate 2023 · Novice Finals · 2023-09-22

  • This house would create a federal police unit for investigating the deaths and disappearances of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

    Infoslide

    Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women refers to the tragic and ongoing crisis of disproportionately high rates of disappearances, violence, and homicides faced by Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit individuals in North America, often stemming from systemic issues and inadequate responses.

    Canadian Universities’ High School Nationals 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-08-19

  • This house believes that the feminist movement should significantly deprioritise carceral feminism

    Infoslide

    Carceral feminism aims to address gender inequality by using the criminal justice system to incarcerate and punish perpetrators of gender-based violence, such as domestic violence or sexual assault. For example, carceral feminists advocate for stricter sentencing laws and harsher punishment for gender-based violence, as well as increased funding and expansion of the justice and police system to handle these cases.

    BP Novice 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-08-11