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by HankB
Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:46 pm
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: Princeton can keep its cops unarmed
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Re: Princeton can keep its cops unarmed

Many years ago, when there were riots in a suburb of Chicago, Mayor Daley (father of the current mayor) ordered some Chicago cops to go there to help out - but to leave their guns at home, and only take their billy clubs.

The cops refused, on the grounds that disarmed cops aren't cops at all . . . and if they're not cops, Daley couldn't order them.

That's the way I feel . . . if I were unarmed security or unarmed police or an unarmed sentry, I most emphatically would NOT go into harm's way or intervene in any incident where violence was likely; I would stay back - run like the devil if I felt I were in danger - and use my cell or radio to call for real cops.

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