hunter45
Regular Member
GWU Police Department is UNARMED? Are they the only police department in the USA that does not carry firearms?
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GWU Police Department....I can't believe this....
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davidmcbeth
Banned
I know many campus police that are unarmed ....
hunter45
Regular Member
I have never heard of such a thing. All Campus Police Departments in Virginia are armed. I don't know how you can be a sworn police officer and not be allowed to carry on duty. What a joke.
marshaul
Campaign Veteran
Personally, I'm quite uncomfortable with the armed-cops-to-armed-citizens ratio we've got going on here.
Police have far less need to be armed as a matter of course than do average citizens. Let's face it: police have an infinitesimally small chance of being present while a crime is actually being committed (if for no other reason than criminals expressly avoid committing crimes in the presence of police).
And even when they respond, the odds are good they'll just wait until the action's over in the name of "officer safety", which is of course far more important than the public safety they putatively exist to protect.
This notion that armed police are in any way an efficacious, reasonable, or necessary response to school shootings is a product of, well, public schools (the primary source of the hero-worship directed at the entire profession of Law Enfarcement). It sure ain't a product of logic.
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davidmcbeth
Banned
Many just carry either radios or whistles ! The old rape whistles where when one blows it, all the rapists come out for the fun.
Citizen
Founder's Club Member
<grumble>
Except for Marshaul, I wouldn't need the on-line dictionary links in my favorites folder.
ETA: AHA! Now, I got him! Putative means assumed to exist. Thus, he's got a redundancy in his sentence. He's essentially saying police assumed to exist exist to protect. Heh, heh, heh.
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marshaul
Campaign Veteran
<grumble>
Except for Marshaul, I wouldn't need the on-line dictionary links in my favorites folder.
ETA: AHA! Now, I got him! Putative means assumed to exist. Thus, he's got a redundancy in his sentence. He's essentially saying police assumed to exist exist to protect. Heh, heh, heh.
Hmm. Nice try.
In effect, I said that their existence "to protect" is generally thought to be. Which is distinct from acceding that they do exist to protect (a premise I reject).
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Lthrnck
Regular Member
VA Police
Well think about this, it's only been maybe 5 to 7 years ago that the police officers at the Veterans Administration Medical Centers were allowed to carry firearms. Prior to that is was mace and a baton.
Now think about the people they could run into and the training these people may have recieved with firearms and explosives.\
There were several VA Police who were killed in the line of duty. Many were shot and all they could do is throw stuff.
Well think about this, it's only been maybe 5 to 7 years ago that the police officers at the Veterans Administration Medical Centers were allowed to carry firearms. Prior to that is was mace and a baton.
Now think about the people they could run into and the training these people may have recieved with firearms and explosives.\
There were several VA Police who were killed in the line of duty. Many were shot and all they could do is throw stuff.
DocWalker
Regular Member
I work in a VA Medical Center and a few years ago they had a guy admitted to the hospital from the ER for long term care and he was armed. The VA police secured his pistol and mailed it back to his house but he had his mail forwarded to the VA and his pistol got delivered to him (by the nurse) in his room at the VA since it was a package and she didn't know what was in it. The system at work...lol
WalkingWolf
Regular Member
Correctional officers do their job around dangerous felons without firearms. It makes sense that police could do the same. Instead the pendulum has swung to more heavily arm police officers. IMO police as well as citizens should be allowed to be armed, but police probably would be killed less if they were not.
Kopis
Regular Member
a lot of european police dont carry firearms either.
DocWalker
Regular Member
Kinda miss the Mayberry days when Andy was an unarmed sheriff and Barny would carry a pistol (unloaded) with one round in his shirt pocket.....
WalkingWolf
Regular Member
That was make believe. The deputies and sheriff in Mt. Airy have always been armed with loaded guns.
WalkingWolf
Regular Member
Even Britain is arming their police, eventually they all will be armed. It is the trend of the world, disarm citizens, heavily arm the government agents.
DocWalker
Regular Member
Hey don't pull me out of my fantasy world....lol
DocWalker
Regular Member
The problem is you, me and most of the people on here can see what is happening while the sheeple out there have their heads in the sand thinking everything is ok; the goverment wouldn't ever do anything wrong.......
Right Hitler, Stallan, Ceaser, Mussialine?, Sadam, Edy Ammen?, Noriega, and all the other would be dictators out there. Right Obama.
Jared
Regular Member
University of Rhode Island Police do not carry guns.
Police officers for the territory of American Samoa do not carry guns.
Shovelhead
Regular Member
Why would they NEED to carry firearms?
DC has some of the strictest firearm 'control' laws in the US.
There would be no need for them to carry one.
In fact DC police shouldn't need to carry firearms either.
Unless they think the criminals might ignore the laws.................. like the REST of us have already figured out.
DC has some of the strictest firearm 'control' laws in the US.
There would be no need for them to carry one.
In fact DC police shouldn't need to carry firearms either.
Unless they think the criminals might ignore the laws.................. like the REST of us have already figured out.
That's probably campus security, mall cops that give parking violations, unlock buildings in the morning and lock at night. Most have security guards, and sworn LEO's that are armed.
marshaul
Campaign Veteran
No, really. Have you seen their level of "professionalism"?
They really shouldn't be armed – not with centuries of precedent establishing almost complete impunity for their misdeeds.