{"id":6064,"date":"2012-09-21T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6064"},"modified":"2012-09-20T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T03:56:00","slug":"why-dont-the-british-police-carry-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/why-dont-the-british-police-carry-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don\u2019t The British Police Carry Firearms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/092012_0307_WhyDontTheB1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The average police officer in England doesn&#8217;t carry a gun. Why not? Jon Kelly reported:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Britain&#8217;s early years the army wore red. To assuage fears that the police would be an oppressive force, they adopted a blue uniform and avoided the use of guns.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;d be difficult to arm all of the police today: weapons are expensive, and periodic training even more so \u2013 especially in a time of government austerity.<\/li>\n<li>Officers would also prefer not to have to make the split-second decision of taking somebody&#8217;s life.<\/li>\n<li>Police feel that they would be seen as less approachable if they carried guns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more about the police units that <em>do <\/em>carry guns, as well as what the British public feels about it over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-19641398\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-19641398\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average police officer in England doesn&#8217;t carry a gun. Why not? Jon Kelly reported: In Britain&#8217;s early years the army wore red. To assuage fears that the police would be an oppressive force, they adopted a blue uniform and avoided the use of guns. It&#8217;d be difficult to arm all of the police today: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/092012_0307_WhyDontTheB1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6089,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions\/6089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}