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Bill: Change Armament for the Police
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Socialist Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2038
Description[?]:
| Seeing no crime is to be punished by death neither should the police have the option to carry out this harsh penalty. With the arms the police today carry many innocent or petty thieves are shot to death by mistake or by lack of information/misunderstanding from the police departments side. By changing to non-lethal arms the police will still be able to neutralize their targets but no chance of taking it to far and killing the target. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The weapons used by police forces.
Old value:: Police officers carry standard firearms.
Current: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons apart from specially trained firearms units.
Proposed: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | United Socialist Party | To | Debating the Change Armament for the Police |
| Message | Thoughts? |
| Date | not recorded | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Change Armament for the Police |
| Message | Provided lethal weapons are still available during certain exceptional instances, such as when replying to an armed robbery, we agree. The standard issue equipment of police should be non-lethal, to prevent accidents and possible abuse by the small fraction of police officers that do not take their obligations to heart. |
| Date | not recorded | From | United Socialist Party | To | Debating the Change Armament for the Police |
| Message | The police is still, of course, obligied to protect civilians and the society with all means necessary and I would assume that such equipment that is used to bring down villains before they could hurt the society/population would be available at say, the trunks of their cars and in each police-station. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Change Armament for the Police |
| Message | Then we certainly support this bill. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Change Armament for the Police |
| Message | We will also support it. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Social Republican Party | To | Debating the Change Armament for the Police |
| Message | In that case, great |
| Date | not recorded | From | United Socialist Party | To | Debating the Change Armament for the Police |
| Message | Proceeding to vote. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Labour Party | To | Debating the Change Armament for the Police |
| Message | This won't pass before the election and will need to be put to the vote again. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 89 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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