Posted on 03/25/2017 11:23:22 AM PDT by rktman
The officer stabbed in Wednesdays terror attack in London was unarmed, like more than 90 percent of the British police force.
Ketih Palmer, 48, was stabbed to death while guarding the entrance to the British Houses of Parliament unarmed. Just 2,800 out of Londons 31,075 police officers are armed, which the police force considers a safety measure.
A cornerstone principle of the Metropolitan Police in London is that guns send the wrong message to communities by provoking crime rather than preventing it. Most officers are only equipped with batons, handcuffs, a mace and in some cases, stun-guns. A small number of specially-trained officers are the only ones carrying guns on patrol. These include counterterrorism police and some officers in high-risk areas like the Parliament.
While countries such as Germany, France and Belgium have put more armed officers on the streets in response to a wave of terror attacks around the continent, the United Kingdom has maintained its policing by consent approach to security. The Metropolitan Police increased the number of armed officers by 600 after the truck attack in Nice last July, but the total number is still a mere 9 percent of the entire force.
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I like this British civil society of unarmed police, but islam is a military threat.
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.
He wasn't a security officer, he was a security monitor.
I thought it was a monty python skit.
Run away, run away!
We note how stupendously effective this is...
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.
Physiological traits? I think you mean psychological!
You mean they don’t stand around and say “ Now now what’s all this?”
LOL, oops. :)
That will change in the coming months.
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.
I hope you are right. It seems that all of Western Europe have assumed the fetal position with these people.
It’s not just about the cops serving unarmed. That bridge has no barriers in place to mitigate the risk of a vehicle attack.
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