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Originally Posted by Bill Harsey
uBoat509,
Joe's point is this:
If only cops are allowed to have a certain knife or article and that cop who is deep undercover has that knife or article found on them when searched by a bad guy, bad guy has found proof he's got a cop.
Result: Cover compromised or blown, cop is at high personal risk of injury or death and all the police work on that investigation is flushed down the toilet.
Word on the street travels at light speed and bad guys find out what cops carry and use, especially if that item is restricted to law enforcement only.
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Ya, what he said.
Thanks Bill!
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Originally Posted by mike-munich
I fully agree with SFC W. Crooks usually don´t care weather a certain item such as a knive or firearm is legal or if he needs a permit. Working undercover and being caught by criminals with such an item, I would always claim that I got it illegally.
Looking at the crime statistics one will see that violent crimes are hardly commited with legal firearms or knives. 99.8% of the cases involve illegal items here.
A ban of certain firearms, blades or even magazine capacity wouldn´t change a thing.
So far I wouldn´t know of a case that involves one of the plastic knives or CIA daggers. They are around, but they wouldn´t show up in the statistic, since they are legal here.
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Work U.C. sometime and your opinion will change. You wake up paranoid thinking "is today the day they catch me?" maintaining "plausible deniability" is great in COURT, bad guys don't play by those rules. If BG's think they have a NARC on there hands one of two things happens: 1. you lose the case because the bad guys won't do business with you or 2. Your dead onsight.
So how strong is your "plausible deniability" now? Would you be willing to bet your life on it?