>>50043342>What? More are being armed with tasers but the average officer aren't getting guns.Has there not been an increase of cops with submachineguns in places like London?
>Arming the entire police force over one incident is a knee jerk reaction akin to banning all guns because someone got shot.Arming all the people who'se duty it is to respond to violent incidents is quite something else than disarming everyone that statistically speaking are rarely, if ever, involved in violent incidents.
>>50043362>>50043488Kek. That's actually why we have the 'Mobile Units' now, I think.. In the old days local police would solve riots in a similar way to your militairy... In Amsterdam police were famously armed with rifles when riots broke out. That ended badly on more than one occasion.
>>50043472>why would we change it, or risk shifting the balance then?Where does this fear of shifting the balance come from?
>>50044269They're good for breaking through barricades.
>>50044486Small populations fuck up statistics that work on 'per 100.000 inhabitants'.. If there are less than 100.000, that skews statistics very badly. Like how the Vatican has 200 popes per 100k... Estonia also has a very high murder rate, but if you look at their population, they still only have about 65 murders a year, most of which are likely in Tallinn.. So they have a normal murder rate for that city, but because that city constitutes such a large part of their population the national stats look much more disturbing than they are.
