[Leaning Right]

High crime area or low crime area, will some LEO freeper please take a guess as to way this agent would leave his weapon, badge and credentials in his car.

It makes no sense to me, unless the agent was undercover and was afraid of being frisked.

[Fido969]

High crime area or low crime area, will some LEO freeper please take a guess as to way this agent would leave his weapon, badge and credentials in his car.

A guess? Buggery.

[discostu]

Mark Douglas (FBI profiler/ author) talked about that. Basically what it boiled to him was: bathrooms. He didn’t like shoulder holsters in general, and belt holsters drop your gun on the floor when you drop your pants, and grabbing the gun before dropping your pants leaves you sitting on the pot in the mall with a gun which struck him as rather odd. So he’d lock his piece in the car, until his car got broken into, but a different area than where he kept his gun. So he got lucky on that front, and learned to cope with the gun in the can.