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Originally posted by LDD:

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Originally posted by radioman:

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Originally posted by Leemur:
Only cops need guns? Right?

In Portland there is a movement to disarm the cops.

They think that if cops had no guns, somehow less people would be shot.

I'm not joking.

Not all police, just the Portland State University police (college campus cops).

I can't speak to their training, but one thing that bothered me about arming them (when the issue came up years ago, back when the did not carry sidearms) was that PSU cops aren't answerable to the general populace. They work for the University, which while public, places a lot of layers of accountability between them and the public, unlike normal police.

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Originally posted by radioman:

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Originally posted by LDD:

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Originally posted by radioman:

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Originally posted by Leemur:
Only cops need guns? Right?

In Portland there is a movement to disarm the cops.

They think that if cops had no guns, somehow less people would be shot.

I'm not joking.

Not all police, just the Portland State University police (college campus cops).

I can't speak to their training, but one thing that bothered me about arming them (when the issue came up years ago, back when the did not carry sidearms) was that PSU cops aren't answerable to the general populace. They work for the University, which while public, places a lot of layers of accountability between them and the public, unlike normal police.

Portland State Univ Police are "normal" police and their cops and department meets the same training, standards (DPSST), and certifications as every other police department in the state.

It would be wrong to somehow classify them as not "normal" because they patrol a different set of city blocks.