Police should not have lethal weapons at all. Traumatic pistols are well enough by stopping power. Not even shockers - they regularly misuse them for torture and murder.
Speaking of stopping power - for police use traumatic weapons are actually better than lethal ones.
When you think about it, carrying weapons in peacetime was a civilian thing for much of modernity in much of the world. Soldiers would be armed when posted, and in other situations it would depend on many things, often armed, but without ammunition. Gendarmes would be armed on service - and that’s not people doing usual police work. Policemen, like boring peelers, would not, batons and sticks are enough.
Civilians would carry weapons to defend against criminals and for other civilian things, like duels.
I’ve mixed, of course, different countries and traditions, but what good does it do to arm police with lethal weapons if it’s not their responsibility to go after really dangerous offenders and, say, mass riots, they have SWAT teams and national guard for that? Talking of USA. Anyway, I live in Russia, here it’ll soon be worse. Right now at least police doing what’s in the article is uncommon, but that can be explained by a system different from USA, static units instead of patrols.
Police should not have lethal weapons at all. Traumatic pistols are well enough by stopping power. Not even shockers - they regularly misuse them for torture and murder.
Speaking of stopping power - for police use traumatic weapons are actually better than lethal ones.
When you think about it, carrying weapons in peacetime was a civilian thing for much of modernity in much of the world. Soldiers would be armed when posted, and in other situations it would depend on many things, often armed, but without ammunition. Gendarmes would be armed on service - and that’s not people doing usual police work. Policemen, like boring peelers, would not, batons and sticks are enough.
Civilians would carry weapons to defend against criminals and for other civilian things, like duels.
I’ve mixed, of course, different countries and traditions, but what good does it do to arm police with lethal weapons if it’s not their responsibility to go after really dangerous offenders and, say, mass riots, they have SWAT teams and national guard for that? Talking of USA. Anyway, I live in Russia, here it’ll soon be worse. Right now at least police doing what’s in the article is uncommon, but that can be explained by a system different from USA, static units instead of patrols.