Originally Posted by
nyeti
If they are smart......they won't. Unfortunately, most will do it wrong to avoid paperwork and self generating attention. They should force the agency to get the policy right....but that likely won't happen either as its career suicide. Nothing like going from one fail to another fail.
We had a local agency that had a paper seal around their shotguns fore end, if you broke the seal....you had to report it and write up why. Guess what happened.....may well as not had a shotgun in the car, as they were almost never used, and if they were deployed,no round was chambered. I saw this first hand when I asked a guy with a shotgun at a hot scene what the hell was around the fore end....his response was "if I rack it I have to cut paper, so we usually never rack them". Yea....we created an appearance of something good and made officers, AND the citizens less safe in the long run rather than just properly train officers how to effectively deploy a shotgun as a tool....and proper application of force. I mean why would you want to properly train rather than just have some lawyer who doesn't know jack shit about cop work write a policy that sounds good to a lawyer who watched four episodes of COPs and liked Adam 12 as a kid.