(06-29-2020 03:42 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  [quote='Owl 69/70/75' pid='16882949' dateline='1593460273']The reason why the UK and Australia experiences are of questionable relevance is because their subjects have never been armed. When you make a traffic stop or detain a person, it's about a 99.9% chance that such individual is not armed. That's not the case in the USA.
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Which explains why our force wouldn't be nearly 90% unarmed, but if our experience here is say 80% of people are unarmed, then perhaps 30%, or 20% or 50% of our force could be unarmed.
If it's not certain times of day or parts of town or types of stops, that's fine.

I think you're going to end up either 1) being very limited in the number of situations where officers are willing to go in unarmed, or 2) coming up with ways to get backup there STAT (like matters of seconds) if ever needed for unarmed situations.