[BTCM]

I nominate you for the first unarmed officer to enter “The Hood”. What’s next, cap guns for the seal teams?

[Roccus]

I nominate you for the first unarmed officer to enter “The Hood”.

Big deal!

I was not a cop, but I've been there and done that.
As a white, middle-aged man I spent the 90's working days/nights (un-armed) in the streets, basements, back yards and roof tops of Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx. I worked alone in places that armed cops wouldn't go without a partner and drawn weapons.