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Sheriff wrote:
Devils Advocate wrote:
DC was forced to lower the standards or have nobody to work the streets.
Thank You! I rest my case. 
And it's happening all over the country, for various reasons. Even the Virginia State Police, the most pretegious law enforcement agency in the nation IMHO, has lowered their standards to recruit applicants. They now hire convicted drug abusers. The applicant simply can't have smoked mariquana two years prior to their application, or used cocaine/heroin five years prior to their application.
Openings occur faster then departments can cram the new rookies through the academies. This in turn affects the quality of training the rookiesare receiving. And this could explain why so many cops don't know the gun laws in their localities now.
I did not realize you had some "case" to prove here. Youdid not offer and actual evidence and only presented hearsay evidence to the jury. You want to testify as an expert witness on all the other police departments in the United Statesbut I submit that you are biased and disgruntled after being let goas a deputy.
What you have to offer should not be accepted without written proof.
Your humble "opinion" is easy to figure out sheriff. Doom and despair, always negative, and bringing dread to every thread. You are a dark cloud!
I will try to shift this post back on topic.
I suspect the academiesfocus on things that the officer is more likely to encounter on his or her daily shift. You can only teach someone just so muchor they will have information overload. You cannot possibly teach every important code section.
As open carry grows what gun codes would need to actually be covered at the academy? Virginia is an open carry state. Done! What other gun codes do they need to know in relation to open carry?
What other gun codes are there that they are failing to be taught and must know?
Sure, we would like for them to know all the codes but let's be realistic about it. A police officer's job is far more than dealing with guns every day. They do so much more.
There are a very small number of us that go out openly armed so it probablynot high on the list of things the officer will every encounter.
Sheriffhas an answer to everything but most often that answer is based on his biased decision making process for being let go as a deputy and his arrest he keeps telling about in the third person.
When a police officer sees one of us open carrying he will either know it is legal or he will suspect it is not and approach. Most cops are not looking to screw with you. There is the exceptionof the1% that do push their weight around. But most cops are not like that.
What other "reaction" do you want to know about? His facial expression? If he rolled his eyes?
Not all cops hate that we open carry. I can completely understand if they wonder why we do it since it is very unusual to see in our world today.
And remember where police officers come from? The public sector filled with people who think open carry is against the law. Many citizens have beenreported to have a negative reaction to us open carrying. So why is it so important to know how the police feel about it? WHO CARES!
If your feelings are going to be hurt then maybe you need to stay at home. People (citizens and police) are not all going to like seeingus armed out in public because they fear what people are capable of doing. The very reason why we open carry in the first place.
Do not expect change overnight. It is going to take years and more exposure before it is seen as commonplace and openly accepted.
