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Push to disarm police officers gains steam in New York
Fox News ^ | 10/21/2019

Posted on 10/21/2019 8:50:47 PM PDT by Beave Meister

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To: Beave Meister

This makes imminent sense. No longer constrained by the crushing burden of having to defend the lives of ordinary citizens with firearms, they can all simply be retrained and repurposed to better serve the newfound emotional needs of modern New Yorkers.

So, for example, during daily violent crime sprees and credible terrorist threats, the NYPD can deploy its dreaded new “Marcel Marseau Division” to perform classic mime routines and make balloon animals for the children of relieved victims and survivors.


41 posted on 10/22/2019 3:55:14 AM PDT by Ancient Man
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To: Zhang Fei

If you believe Mr. Bowman’s LinkedIn page, he’s a part of the Educational Industrial Complex and has never held a private sector job.

Neither had the last 4 ‘Rats who campaigned at my door. I know because I always ask.

Explains a lot.


42 posted on 10/22/2019 4:01:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: dp0622

I said it only as a reference to proper self defense. Cops only rarely catch perps in the act. They’re there most often to pick up the pieces and write the report so that if and when the bad guy is caught, he/she can be properly adjudicated. Don’t depend on law enforcement for your own self defense. As you pointed out, there are simply too few of them. Criminals are afraid of cops because they’re armed and trained. They should be afraid of normal citizens for the same reason.

CC


43 posted on 10/22/2019 5:08:28 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: Beave Meister

This piece of $hit wants cops dead. He should say what he is thinking. He wants obama’s boys to run free in the streets, raping, killing and stealing, with the police cowering in fear.

He hates us and this country.


44 posted on 10/22/2019 5:09:12 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Zhang Fei

The police in Canada are armed. It isn’t England.


45 posted on 10/22/2019 5:15:05 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Dogbert41

In a circuitous way could work. Vigilance committees would emerge with a much more definitive and timely administration of frontier justice.


46 posted on 10/22/2019 5:20:56 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneoWhat will it take to get her investigated for immigration fraud involving a marriage t)
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To: dp0622

“The police are for AFTER you’ve been robbed or attacked.”

Seems very few people understand the construct of how the police operate.


47 posted on 10/22/2019 6:27:58 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (When you think about what the left is doing to America, think no further than Cloward-Piven)
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To: HollyB

Thanks, Holly!


48 posted on 10/22/2019 6:43:33 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Beave Meister

It worked OK in Britain with the Bobbies... until they imported too many turd-worlders from the far reaches of the British Empire. In other words, with a mostly law-abiding citizenry, you can pull it off. But once there’s enough of a custom of violence, Fug-geddabout-it!


49 posted on 10/22/2019 7:16:21 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

What's all this then?

50 posted on 10/22/2019 9:07:55 AM PDT by Blogatron (Brought to you by The American Frog Council; "Frog - The other green meat.")
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To: Beave Meister

I doubt that disarming New York police officers would be a good idea. Other British-esque policies would likely follow for the purpose of trying to make it work, and such a policy package would be incongruent with our U.S. Constitution and other laws. A better way would be to improve policies to agree more with our Second Amendment, everyone’s right to self-defense, and yes, general safety.


51 posted on 10/22/2019 2:02:08 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: fieldmarshaldj

12. A modern version of the cops in “Demolition Man”, literally disarmed and dead.


52 posted on 10/22/2019 6:42:27 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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