which proves – since they keep going for their guns – that the guns themselves are a key part of problem.
no. they do not carry guns and they don’t therefore have the choice to use them when in a crisis situation. they don’t even want guns because they know what kind of outcomes carrying a gun generate.
“We are passionate that the British style of policing is routinely unarmed policing. Sadly we know from the experience in America and other countries that having armed officers certainly does not mean, sadly, that police officers do not end up getting shot.”
But one thing is clear. When asked, police officers say overwhelmingly that they wish to remain unarmed.
A 2006 survey of 47,328 Police Federation members found 82% did not want officers to be routinely armed on duty, despite almost half saying their lives had been “in serious jeopardy” during the previous three years.
