That being said, I still dont like the idea of the shop owner being cuffed for the "officers safety."
That cops safety was not an excuse to infringe on the right of the CWP holder. The cop should have been capable of doing their job without this stunt and should be punished.
I'll go read any replies, but the logic could have been better explained.
I am going to guess that 90% of all officer calls is the result of a ‘civilian’ providing the key and only information.
Which means there are two actors( excluding the criminal ) One is directly informed, has the facts, local knowledge. The other ( can be ) thought of as an armed bureaucrat of the state.
So, in this case, what did the (factually) ignorant bureaucrat do? Insult and disarm the party upon which the majority of all police information comes from, ie, the citizen.
Police are totally dependent upon the taxes, good will, support and most importantly, the timely information of their fellow citizens.
The facts of this case, that the officer, confronted with a middle age, Jewish business owner, his wife and the security company, acted so is so bizarre. On the other hand I can not imagine being a officer dealing with the products of the welfare state, usual American run of the road professional social victims( drunk hubby beats druggie wife, and baby sit my slut daughter, druggie son), pointless arrest of the lower class bullet proof criminals, and being a part time revenue agent of the state against the average American working stiff is attractive occupation to the best people. In other words, police departments got to work with what they got in this affirmative action, buerocratic, lawsuit happy, money hustling age.