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Book 2021s. Consideration is also given to the role played by key tropes and constructs of popular culture. Drawing on Surette’s model of symbolic reality, the book considers contrasting media traditions and the positioning of firearms within narrative arcs, especially the role of heroes. The book concludes

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Introduction,rpinning all of them is the police, who have both the right and the duty to use violence, up to and including lethal force, on behalf of the community as a whole. The use of force by police is one of the most important issues facing any community. You might then expect that there would be detailed a

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,‘Only the Minimum Degree’: The Minimum Force Tradition,29 creation of the New Police in London, and “Peel’s Principles”. Despite an uncertain provenance, the Principles remain enormously influential. In this chapter, we explore the surprisingly flimsy theoretical underpinning of minimum force policing. Among the more substantial contributions in this fi

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Operationalising Minimum Force: The Need for Evidence,outinely armed and routinely unarmed policing, and highlighted the absence of empirical evidence to underpin any argument for change. In this chapter we introduce our comparative study, which set out to develop an evidence base to inform understanding of the effects on safety of the routine arming o

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,‘The Law of the Instrument’: Examining the Nexus Between Safety and the Routine Arming of Police Ofnation of community safety, police officer safety, and the routine arming of police officers. We explore how safety, a complex construct, can be usefully measured, and then compare in detail the four chosen jurisdictions. Using publicly available data, published documents and media sources, we analy

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Do Police Need Guns?,o challenge? Or can the efficacy of minimum force, for both the community and police themselves, be demonstrated with tested evidence? We have also unpacked the armed tradition of policing, and questioned the frequent, confident assertion that the community will be better protected and that police w