A policy established by Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy in response to a federal court ruling that blanket refusals to permit the bearing of arms are unconstitutional will endanger not only law-abiding citizens, but also any law enforcement officer not in uniform, including state and federal agents and lawfully-carrying retirees.
“I don’t care if they’re licensed legal firearms,”News in Black quoted McCarthy from a WVON 1690 am radio interview. “ … I’ll train our officers that there is a concealed carry law, but when somebody turns with a firearm in their hand the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get shot to return fire and we’re going to have tragedies as a result of that. I’m telling you right up front.”
That the person with the gun may be a citizen who was defending his or her life, or a plainclothes law enforcement officer or agent engaged in protecting their own and/or others’ lives does not seem to enter into McCarthy’s training instructions, and while no one would expect a uniformed officer to wait for a suspect to open fire before initiating defensive actions, the Superintendent's instruction is to err on the side of shooting first and asking questions later, even if it means more “friendly fire” deaths and injuries, rather than accepting that good people can have guns and incorporating that reality into crime scene response training.
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