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Would arming all UK cops reduce crime?

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Or would it just serve to arm the criminals?

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  1. I have been a UK Cop for many years, I have been involved in warrants and recovered military grade firearms that were being used by drug dealers and I have sadly been confronted by a male armed with a knife. However the answer to reducing crime is educating the young people of the UK to totally reject the concept of gang/gun culture. This is not an easy task and will take probably ten to fifteen years and that's a conservative estimate. In the meantime the use of taser (electric stun gun) will be rolled out to all UK cops over the next year or so. I think by 2012 all london cops will either have a firearm or access to one if needed.  


  2. No, not now as the problems were not addressed at the time. In the fight against crime one must pro active which the British have never been and shall never be.....that is how things are there now and one must just hope that one doesn't become a victim of crime. I am glad not be languishing there anymore. That Island is the laughing stock of the world...and now I laugh at them from 18000 Kilometres away...ha..ha...ha to the lot of them.

  3. By all means it must. Unless the Brits are powerless against men in funny uniforms who wave batons and shout "What's all this then?"

  4. Yes has in America they do not get away with blue murder do they, at least it will be far more safer especially for the senior citizens,

  5. these types of petty inquiries is why our forefathers bailed to america........by the way----yes, with our guns....

  6. I admire the police and think that they have a thankless job, but I would not wish to see them armed as a matter of course. I know the Dixon of Docks Green days have gone if they ever existed but think some police are from time to time a little too heavy  handed with their truncheons and CS gas. Heaven help us if some of those are let loose with a firearm.  

  7. No that is not the best solution or answer to the question. Arming all UK cops would only add insult to injury. Some cops are considered to be trigger happy, like SHOOT FIRST BEFORE ASKING QUESTION. They won't have too many answer this way.

    The only solution of reducing or permanently eliminating the crime rate is the cooperation of the community itself with the law enforcer. The police needs the populace if they want somebody fugitive under the law because the people are everywhere and can find these suspect within their midst. AND THE PEOPLE needs the police to protect them and serve their needs. So by cooperating with each other they not only reduce the number of crime but totally eliminate them.  

  8. A very good question.

    Despite what you may have read in the Daily Mail, knife crime and in particular gun crime is still quite uncommon in the UK.

    I have 17 years service and have always worked in a multi racial inner city.

    In that time I have had 2 knife attacks on me and recovered many knives.

    I have only seen 2 firearms. Neither of which were being levelled at me.

    Most criminals don't believe that they will be caught.

    I'm somewhat sceptical as to whether arming the police would mean that all villains would get guns.

    I must say that there are a number of Police officers that I wouldn't feel good about giving a pea shooter to let alone a gun.

    Also there are a number who would not feel too happy about carrying a lump of metal on their utility belt, which is capable of ensuring instant death and perpetual regret.


  9. No we should not arm our police, is has not cut down the gun crime in the USA, and it would not here, you will get typical answers from cop haters such as they are not trusted with pea shooters

  10. I would arm them anyhow.  The main problems with the forces is too much paper work. Do away with Stats its only a paper exercise.  Get the Bobby back on the street. Abolish Human rights.

  11. No.

    Don't think so.

    The problems is not the crime.

    The problems is the children with self lack of knowledge.

    Making a mess after being hit on the head with the Book of the Dead in not giving them the Book of the Living without being aware of it being expose in time.

    While they were blindly searching for the gifts of life that was lost with time. with the mess out there..

    When they don't even know what cause the emptiness that made them live in misery at loss with the missing link in the generation gap.

    Luke 9.25,55-56,60

    Luke 8.5-8,10-17

    Matt 22.17-21

    Luke 16.13

    Luke 11.33-36,46-52

    Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49

    John 7.19

    Luke 21.30-33

    Matt 22.32

    What do you think?

  12. The UK police are armed.

  13. Depends if you trust the cops... I mean, having a gun pointed in your face is a pretty good deterrent to misbehaving or mouthing off at the police officers, however, I know one or two policemen, and they get sort of power-crazed now and then, I wouldn't want to see them with guns!

  14. The idea is quite nuts.  Haveing lived in the UK before the police were armed and durring the time that some were armed.  We can see that giving the regular cops weapons is statisticaly crazy.  All we have to do is look how violant crime went up since the arming of police.  All it would mean is that more police will be shot as every criminal will know when they see the uniform... that cop will have a gun, which the cop would not know about the criminal... all we are left with are shoot outs and dead cops at best.

  15. More old bill that are armed the more innocent people that get shot. They shot first and ask questions later and always get off. If they all start carrying guns so will the crims.

  16. It will not reduce crime, but it would protect more police officers.  

    Why the thumbs down for this one?  I remember the story of two female cops there who were killed.  I doubt either of them was armed, but the criminals were.  

    If UK cops don't want guns, good for them, but the cops in the airports love theirs.

  17. It's unlikely, but it's also inevitable that all UK cops Will have to be armed shortly.

  18. No. Even if Officers were given the option to carry a firearm, I'd be worried about th ones who did, so no.

  19. No.

    However if the Police started shooting more scum bags on sight it may well do.

  20. No because it would be setting a dangerous precedent. Some of them couldn't be trusted with pea shooters as recent episodes prove.
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