Me: “Nice Sig ya got there officer. Is that a 226 or a 229?”
Cop: “I don’t rightly know.”
Me: Is it chambered in 9mm or .40 Smith and Wesson?”
Cop: “I dunno.”
There are quite a rew large city or county PD’s that are strongly ‘anti gun culture’ about their members. Chicago PD among them. The history is interesting. For organized crime the CPD was off limits by an informal but biding agreement. The CPD would some times arrest outfit guys and there was even the occasional car chase but no rough stuff in either direction. Street criminals 50 + years ago were not nearly as well armed as today and the CPD used their sidearms to pistol whip resisters more than ever firing them. CPD while institutionally corrupt had a ‘one officer, one riot’ elan about meting out street justice. Hence forearm skills were considered almost irrelevant. I suspect many big cities were like that. Of course, in San Francisco Nan’s home town of Baltimore the cops were notorious for running in the opposite direction of trouble.