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Speaker 1: Almost seventy percent of cops want to be armed, and

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Speaker 1: I say, who the hell are we to get in

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Speaker 1: their way. The new commission has come in and he's

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Speaker 1: been more gung ho on this idea of regular arming

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Speaker 1: of our police force than any of his predecessors. The

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Speaker 1: fact is they're on the front line, aren't they. Last

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Speaker 1: year there was a nine percent increase in tactical operations

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Speaker 1: interactions that means basically the bad ones. That's up more

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Speaker 1: than seven two more than seven thousand. Now. The number

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Speaker 1: of cops physically attack doubled from twenty twenty two to

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. It's dangerous. We're not the ones going

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Speaker 1: out on the streets, aren't we. We're tucked up in

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Speaker 1: bed with moral superiorities saying no, we don't like the

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Speaker 1: idea of you guys being armed. I prefer you pulled

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Speaker 1: the gang member over. Please take your chances. It's a

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Speaker 1: little bit sanctimonious from us, don't you think if they

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Speaker 1: feel it would make their situations safer, then I trust

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Speaker 1: them to make that call. Of course, you'll always have

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Speaker 1: mistakes and chaos. Price The shooting clearly shouldn't have happened,

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Speaker 1: And they say they're working further training, etc. To make

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Speaker 1: that all better. But we can't sit here tacked up

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Speaker 1: in our beds at night or judge when we're not

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Speaker 1: the ones out there and the dead of the night,

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Speaker 1: facing more violence, guns and crime. For more from Early

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