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Tournament: Alta | Round: 2 | Opponent: College Prep MK | Judge: Letak, Liz

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Counterplan text: the United States Federal Government will increase financial incentives for body cameras acquisition and use by states, create uniform standards for body camera use, included but not limited to public disclosure of body camera materials for extended lengths of time greater than 90 days. Funding is tied to state compliance.

Public access quells public relations problems. Nunes 1-7

Iesha Nunes ~J.D., expected May 2016, University of Florida Levin College of Law. B.A., Criminology, B.S., Family, Youth, and Community Sciences, December 2012, University of Florida~, January 7, 2016  ""Hands Up, Don't Shoot": Police Misconduct and the Need for Body Cameras" Florida Law Review, http://www.floridalawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/11-Nunes
Even though the Florida statute does help protect civilian privacy while limiting some of the
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higher cost is justified by granting the public fairer access to the footage. 

Programs have already been proposed – no distribution solvency deficits. Nunes 1-7

Iesha Nunes ~J.D., expected May 2016, University of Florida Levin College of Law. B.A., Criminology, B.S., Family, Youth, and Community Sciences, December 2012, University of Florida~, January 7, 2016  ""Hands Up, Don't Shoot": Police Misconduct and the Need for Body Cameras" Florida Law Review, http://www.floridalawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/11-Nunes
To increase the use of body cameras by law enforcement officers, the federal government
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increase the use of body cameras by local and state law enforcement agencies. 

The counterplan creates new regulations – the fed is key. Nunes 1-7

Iesha Nunes ~J.D., expected May 2016, University of Florida Levin College of Law. B.A., Criminology, B.S., Family, Youth, and Community Sciences, December 2012, University of Florida~, January 7, 2016  ""Hands Up, Don't Shoot": Police Misconduct and the Need for Body Cameras" Florida Law Review, http://www.floridalawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/11-Nunes
If other states take the same approach to body cameras as South Carolina and Florida
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and the only way to have such concordance is to have federal regulations. 

Largest study ever conducted verifies effictiveness. Ariel and Sutherland 9-29

Barak Ariel ~Ph.D. (Criminology) Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University (2009); LL.M. Hebrew University (2007); Law Practicing Certificate (2007); LL.B. (Specialisation in Criminal Law and Criminology), Ramat Gan College of Law (Honours Thesis) (2006); M.A. (Criminology) Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University (2003); B.A. (Psychology) CUNY New York (1997)~ and Alex Sutherland ~currently a research associate at the Institute of Criminology He previously taught courses in quantitative methods to graduate students from a range of disciplines across the university and coordinated the quantitative methods provision in the SSRMC programme. Prior to arriving in Cambridge, Alex worked for several years as a researcher at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, before completing his D.Phil. in Sociology also at Oxford. Alex was the managing editor of the European Journal of Criminology 2006-2011.~, 9-29-2016, "Use of body-worn cameras sees complaints against police 'virtually vanish', study finds," University of Cambridge, http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/use-of-body-worn-cameras-sees-complaints-against-police-virtually-vanish-study-finds
Year-long study of almost 2,000 officers across UK and US forces
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is associated with a startling 93 reduction in citizen complaints against police. 

There's a contagious accountability effect – eventually officers will change their behavior. Ariel and Sutherland 9-29

Barak Ariel ~Ph.D. (Criminology) Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University (2009); LL.M. Hebrew University (2007); Law Practicing Certificate (2007); LL.B. (Specialisation in Criminal Law and Criminology), Ramat Gan College of Law (Honours Thesis) (2006); M.A. (Criminology) Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University (2003); B.A. (Psychology) CUNY New York (1997)~ and Alex Sutherland ~currently a research associate at the Institute of Criminology He previously taught courses in quantitative methods to graduate students from a range of disciplines across the university and coordinated the quantitative methods provision in the SSRMC programme. Prior to arriving in Cambridge, Alex worked for several years as a researcher at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, before completing his D.Phil. in Sociology also at Oxford. Alex was the managing editor of the European Journal of Criminology 2006-2011.~, 9-29-2016, "Use of body-worn cameras sees complaints against police 'virtually vanish', study finds," University of Cambridge, http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/use-of-body-worn-cameras-sees-complaints-against-police-virtually-vanish-study-finds
Across all seven trial sites during the 12 months preceding the study, a total
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so stuck," said co-author Dr Alex Sutherland of RAND Europe.

Solves: Police Accountability

It forces officers to become accountable – empirics prove. Nunes 1-7

Iesha Nunes ~J.D., expected May 2016, University of Florida Levin College of Law. B.A., Criminology, B.S., Family, Youth, and Community Sciences, December 2012, University of Florida~, January 7, 2016  ""Hands Up, Don't Shoot": Police Misconduct and the Need for Body Cameras" Florida Law Review, http://www.floridalawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/11-Nunes
A recent study has also highlighted the effectiveness of body cameras. In Rialto,
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many proven benefits associated with the use of body cameras by law enforcement.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 2 | Opponent: College Prep MK | Judge: Letak, Liz

Limiting qualified immunity means that officers will be held accountable for things they couldn't know – kills active policing. Leeuwen 16

Sean Van Leeuwen ~Vice President of Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs~, Post June 23, 2016, "Political rushes to judgement hurt public safety,"
Last week, a Baltimore judge acquitted Baltimore P.D. Officer Caesar Goodson
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the rightness of the job all of us do to protect the public.

Interviews prove – there are multiple internal links to deterrence. Ferdik 13

Frank V. Ferdik ~Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of South Carolina~, August 2013, "Perception is Reality: A Qualitative Approach to Understanding Police Officer Views on Civil Liability" International Police Executive Symposium, Geneva Centre For the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Coginta – For Police Reforms and Community Safety, http://www.coginta.org/uploads/documents/817bd907a32ad935c3d563655f76658580c75497.pdf
Failure to take action in situations that require it, social isolation, losing one's
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, some officers were quick to note that additional defense measures are required.

A drop in proactive policing results in a crime soar — empirics. Hofstetter 16

George Hofstetter ~President of the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs~, 5-23-2016, "Proactive policing and the violent crime rate," Association For Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, https://www.facebook.com/notes/association-for-los-angeles-deputy-sheriffs-alads/proactive-policing-and-the-violent-crime-rate/854840147953453/
However, statistics and interviews with police officers suggest Comey is exactly right. Proactive
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proactive policing, with a rising violent crime rate left in its wake.

Crime kills soft power. Falk 12

Falk 12 (Richard, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights) "When soft power is hard" Al Jazeera, 28 Jul AT

The final section of the Nye/Owens article is aptly titled "The
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that the adage, "disease unknown, cure unknown", applies. 

Loss of soft power causes extinction – warming, disease, economic collapse, and nuclear disaster. Nye 7

Joseph Nye (Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard, and previous dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government) and Richard Armitage (13th United States Deputy Secretary of State, the second-in-command at the State Department, serving from 2001 to 2005), "CSIS Reports – A Smarter, More Secure America", 11/6, 2007 http://www.csis.org/component/option,com_csis_pubs/task,view/id,4156/type,1/
t power is the ability to attract people to our side without coercion. Legitimacy
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today's environment. Those who alienate potential friends will stand at greater risk. 

CP Doesn't link to the crime da – officers don't care. Wang 15 Cites Jennings

Nick Wing ~Senior Viral Editor at the Huffington Post~ Citing William Jennings ~principal investigator for the study and associate chair in USF's Department of Criminology~, 10-13-2015, "Study Shows Less Violence, Fewer Complaints When Cops Wear Body Cameras," Huffington Post, span class="skimlinks-unlinked"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/police-body-camera-study_us_561d2ea1e4b028dd7ea53a56/span
Many officers reported that the equipment changed citizen behavior and helped to de-escalate
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said the agency should adopt body cameras for all front-line officers.