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Originally posted by SoCal Driver
Was a recent episode of COPS where a female officer that came here from police duty in England said she would never go back to English police duty unless she could take her gun with her.
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I wouldn't place too much authorotaii in anything that cops say on TV documentaries. Put a cop in front of a camera and tell them it's live TV and they just start blabbing any old bollocks like they're seeking to impress.
I saw one of those American cop docs (don't know what it was called but a smarmy bugger with gleaming white teeth and an absurd perma-tan was fronting it) ....
Anyhow this chubby lil donut scoffer was telling the camera how he was called to a domestic and was surprised by the perp waving a gun in his face (a revolver). According to this cop he didn't drop the guy because he could see a pinhole of light down the barrel revealing that the chamber was unloaded. Utter poppycock! Should have double-tapped the bugger right from the get-go. There's no way he could have seen that from a distance of ten foot with the perps body blocking the light.
As for the woman police officer saying she couldn't police in England without a gun ... shows just how much she relies on her piece rather than her brain and the authority of her office. Maybe Brit cops have more wits about them because they face the same hazards day in day out without having to rely on a cannon.
I admit I'm biased though - in my family you do your ten years or so in the army and then go into the police. I would have done too were it not for a lazy left eye (did soco instead).
I've been to the States something like thirty times now and every time I've had dealings with cops (asking directions, visiting courts as part of my degree research or whatever ) it never fails to amaze me as to how unpleasant an attitude they give you. They're always polite but it's always in that hard-stare-behind-Raybans-forced courtesy manner. You get the feeling they'd rather give you a discreet kicking than be helpul. Maybe it's a Cleveland / New York / Washington thing. At least British cops appear to be sincerely polite.