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EntryDate

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1		-2016-11-07 03:29:36.692
	1	+2016-11-07 03:29:36.0

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	1	+Counterplan text: The United States Federal Government should disarm police on patrol.
	2	+Solves police shootings and improves officer safety
	3	+Smithsimon 15 (Gregory, Associate Professor of Sociology @ Brooklyn College) “Disarm the Police,” Metropolitics, 09/29/2015 LADI
	4	+Efforts to reform police behavior fall short by design however if they don’t fundamentally change the power dynamic between police and people who are most intensively policed. “Community policing tends to turn all neighborhood problems into police problems,” Vitale (2015) notes in an Al Jazeera open editorial. Law enforcement’s tools of arrest and physical force are limited ways to deal with community problems. Unarmed public-safety officers would be better able to do the work that most of them join the force to do in the first place, instead of being put into contentious situations with community residents that end badly and make no one safer. The British practice what researchers call “policing by consent” (Tilley 2008). Could today’s cops do their jobs like all other civil servants do, on the basis of respect for their position, not their sidearm? Most cops could do their jobs better freed from the weapon that is a barrier between themselves and the people they are to protect. Over a dozen countries have unarmed police—not just Britain, the best-known example, but Iceland (where a third of residents own guns, but the police patrol unarmed), Ireland (neighbor to a decades-long bombing campaign), and Norway, even after a terrorist attack against a summer camp. (Noack 2015) The disparities in civilian deaths are absurd: police here killed about 1,000 people 10 last year,11 while the police in Great Britain fired their guns three times all year—and killed no one.12 What’s more surprising is what we forget when people say that the police need guns because they do a dangerous job: it’s more dangerous because of their guns. Surveys of police who are unarmed find that their concerns include not only danger to civilians, but the psychological harm done to police who fire weapons, and a belief that arming police makes officers’ jobs more dangerous (Squires and Kennison 2010). Thirty police were killed in the US in 2014, while a police officer was last killed in Great Britain in 2012. Even accounting for the UK’s smaller size, a dozen cops would have died on the job in that time if they faced the rates of American police “protected” by their weapons.

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	1	+2016-11-07 03:29:38.141

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	1	+--

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	1	+--

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	1	+11

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	1	+4

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	1	+Immaculate Heart Dosch Neg

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	1	+NOVDEC - Disarm CP

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	1	+Damus Invitational