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Britain’s Response To Terror Threat: Keep 90 Percent Of Police Officers Unarmed
dailycaller.com ^ | 3/24/2017 | Jacob Bojesson

Posted on 03/25/2017 11:23:22 AM PDT by rktman

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To: rktman

I like this British civil society of unarmed police, but islam is a military threat.


21 posted on 03/25/2017 2:17:16 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

Problem is they had acknowledged the IrA as a foreign like terror organization. They do not consider, however, terrorists who dream out loud of killing Britons as spies, so they let them spout it until they do it.


22 posted on 03/25/2017 2:19:36 PM PDT by lavaroise
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The officer stabbed in Wednesday’s terror attack in London was unarmed, like more than 90 percent of the British police force.

He wasn't a security officer, he was a security monitor.

23 posted on 03/25/2017 2:45:29 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: Trump20162020

I thought it was a monty python skit.


24 posted on 03/25/2017 2:59:16 PM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: ABN 505

Run away, run away!


25 posted on 03/25/2017 3:00:07 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: moose07

We note how stupendously effective this is...


26 posted on 03/25/2017 3:13:47 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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There are a number of forces at play with this.
Personally I would rather see armed citizenry than armed Police on the streets.
This may appear rather odd from your perspective,but the physiological traits of most UK police officers are on the shall we say “the kid who was bullied at school” side.
A loosening of some of the laws with regards to the use of violence in self defence or the defence of others would be a good start.
If it comes to Police being routinely armed i want a firearm as well.
The use of the weapon will have to be as tightly controlled as the taser is now, other wise the police state mentality will blossom into a nightmare.

When you aren’t allowed to carry, the sight of a person with excessive powers already , having the power of life and death controlled by a suspect personality does make one rather uneasy.
Whilst the secret security agencies are able to cope, let's keep things as they are. Unless of course they are a little more involved than is palatable to contemplate...

Executive summary:
Most brits hate the sight of firearms in public places.

27 posted on 03/25/2017 4:06:05 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Forward to the glorious world of next Tuesday !)
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Physiological traits? I think you mean psychological!

You mean they don’t stand around and say “ Now now what’s all this?”


28 posted on 03/25/2017 4:14:12 PM PDT by Reily
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LOL, oops. :)


29 posted on 03/25/2017 4:16:32 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Forward to the glorious world of next Tuesday !)
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And don't forget how very few British police die as a result of violent crime - still only 26 since the year 2000.

That will change in the coming months.

30 posted on 03/25/2017 5:32:29 PM PDT by Oatka
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Always possible, but still highly improbable. There is no sign of a rising trend in jihadist attacks in the UK - at least not in ‘successful’ attacks, although there has been a rise in the number of conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism convictions - ie. planned attacks which were discovered by te Police/MI5 before they could happen.


31 posted on 03/26/2017 12:47:47 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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Always possible, but still highly improbable. There is no sign of a rising trend in jihadist attacks in the UK - at least not in ‘successful’ attacks,

I hope you are right. It seems that all of Western Europe have assumed the fetal position with these people.

32 posted on 03/26/2017 7:52:51 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: Winniesboy

It’s not just about the cops serving unarmed. That bridge has no barriers in place to mitigate the risk of a vehicle attack.


33 posted on 03/26/2017 8:04:43 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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