It’s getting to the point where everyone should have guns EXCEPT police, at least in individual departments. This was NOT a lone Barney Fife incident.
I wonder how many police forces are regularly target practicing on the “no more hesitation targets”?
It used to be the case that police were unarmed, and civilians armed, because the early police were recruited from lower-classes, and were patrolling upper class areas. The NY police dept were not authorized to carry guns until 1887.