YES! Police in other countries do it every day!
33%
YES! But it will never happen in gun-crazed America.
67%
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I voted yes fo rthe first one, but the second is probably right as well beings america is gun crazy.
I can't even vote on this. There is not a "No" option.
I vote NO because, having had several family members in the past who were law enforcement officers, they could not have done their job without being armed. When you are in law enforecement you do not know what you will run into each time you approach someone to arrest them. Whether you're a Highway Patrolman approaching a car stopped for speeding at night or whether you're answering a burglery call or gang fight, you need to be able to protect yourself.
This spate of police gunning down innocent people is a lack of training although, from what I read, perhaps bigotry thrown in, too. Where's the discipline?
No. Not in this society. Can you imagine them adopting the British system with their whistles and chasing down some drug dealer or gang banger, "Stop or I'll toot!". Cops here are already outgunned. On the other hand, can you imagine cops here trying to do their jobs if more individuals actually complied with the police or kids where taught by their parents not to challenge cops or run away from them and do what they are asked? Now that would be a sight wouldn't it?