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Ryan Bridge: I trust police to make the call around regular arming · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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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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