re: #38 Dark_Falcon

But what’s the cop supposed to do? He gets a call about a crime, albeit a minor one and responds. When he does, he gets a very belligerent response to a request for ID. What’s he done wrong? He hadn’t made any accusations or said anything inappropriate. Should he have just ignored his dispatcher?

I’d also note that claiming special status as she did is not the sort of thing a person who has done nothing wrong will do; It’s something done by people who are trying to claim their status should allow them to evade the consequences of their actions.

Ever hear of a fucking taser? The simple presence of one on a _PROPERLY_ trained officer’s belt decreases violent outcomes. Because they know they have a escape valve.

DF, one of thing I’ve been trying to remind you is that people react how they’ve been trained to react. When we trained MP’s for Bosnia, we spent a lot of time teaching them how to find the weapons those people would really actually likely have - a wire that would be a garrote in my hat, a bit of steel in my shoe, a .25 caliber pistol taped to my groin because “straight guys don’t feel up other men there” and so on. Firearms are so much easier to defend against than 99% of the things humans have thought of…