Bears Armed Mission wrote:"For these reasons, my Mission has been instructed that if this proposed resolution is passed then we should produce a 'Repeal' proposal. If we are forced by events to do so, and that repeal also passes, then I hope that the sponsoring nations will take our reasoning into account when drafting any replacement for this text."
And the second draft:
The World Assembly,
- Recognising the good intentions behind G.A. Resolution #590 'LEO Force Restrictions';
- Remembering, however, which road is said to be paved with good intentions;
- Believing that the resolution's assertions that people's rights to life are "often infringed upon" by law enforcement officers' excessive use of force and that member nations contain "historically marginalised groups", although they might be correct in the case of some countries, are deeply insulting to the many member nations in which those situations do not exist;
- Seriously concerned that the way in which this resolution requires member nations to criminalise the use by law enforcement officers of "significantly more force than is necessary in the situation to restrain and subsequently detain" a person and to "punish any entities that continue to employ LEOs that have administered force in contradiction of such Articles" apply not only when the decisions about how much force is necessary are made at the time of the incident concerned but also "in retrospect", combined with its requirement that the nations regularly review such matters, mean that such decisions sometimes must be made in retrospect and that this _
- Ignores the fact that the law enforcement officers typically will have had to make their decisions almost instantaneously, whereas people studying the evidence can take as long as they want about that before deciding, which is unbalanced and seems unfair;
- Effectively requires the people making those assessments to consider facts that the law enforcement officers involved had no way of knowing at the time, such as whether the perpetrator of a mass shooting had just run out of ammunition, instead of being able to consider only the facts that those law enforcement officers reasonably could have been expected to know;
- Lacks any limit on how long after an incident an officer can be decided "in retrospect" to have used excessive force, meaning that any law enforcement officer who uses any force whatsoever even once must then have to worry about being charged with doing so excessively forever after, which itself is excessive;
- Noting the resolution's requirement that member nations equip every one of their law enforcement officers with "body-worn cameras linked to any official vehicles they may be associated with which automatically turn on when those vehicles' lights or sirens activate" does not take into account the fact that some member nations might well be insufficiently advanced in technology or simply too poor to do this, whether by allowing exceptions or by offering assistance, and thus forces those nations either to do without at least some of the law enforcement officers whom they would otherwise employ or to disobey this resolution;
- Understanding that the legal requirement for law enforcement officers to carry "body-worn cameras" would hinder their ability to carry out undercover investigations;
- Realizing that the requirement for those cameras' use is rendered ineffective, anyway, by the fact that the resolution allows these devices to be turned off when "their recording capacity is fully utilised" but does not require that they possess at least any specific minimum amount of recording capacity, which is a loophole that nations hostile to this legislation could exploit easily -- by issuing cameras with only very small recording capacities -- to render the cameras effectively useless;
- Hoping that if a replacement for G.A. Resolution #590 is considered necessary then the authors of that new legislation take these points into account;
Hereby repeals G.A. Resolution #590 'LEO Force Restrictions'.
In addition to incorporating the "list" formatting, this version adds one extra clause which is now labelled "6".
Artorrios O Southwoods,
ChairBear,
Bears Armed Mission to the W.A. .
Link to the target resolution