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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 845329" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>I have 4 sheriffs deputies and a State Trooper that live on my route.</p><p> </p><p>All of them drive home in their patrol cars when their shift is over. And all of them are issued shotguns or rifles in addition to their service handguns. This is the norm for <em>most </em>sheriffs and state troopers nationwide; it is only in urban areas that the police report for duty at a headquarters with a locker room. The officers on my route remove the shotguns and rifles out of the trunk of the patrol car when they get home and secure them in a county-issued gun safe in their house.</p><p> </p><p>As far as the county being somehow "liable" for the <em>off-duty</em> actions of one of its officers who uses a county-issued weapon during the comission of a crime....that is complete hogwash. The bottom line is that anyone can file a lawsuit for anything, but that doesnt mean they will prevail in a court of law. I would be interested to hear about any <em>actual</em>, <em>real world</em> incidents where a police agency was <em>successfully</em> sued due to the weapon involved being county issue vs. privately owned.</p><p> </p><p>Cops have a stressful job, and I am all for providing more counseling or mental-health resources for them when needed. But the idea that leaving their duty weapons behind when they go home will somehow reduce the liability of the agency that issued them is fiction, not legal fact.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 845329, member: 14668"] I have 4 sheriffs deputies and a State Trooper that live on my route. All of them drive home in their patrol cars when their shift is over. And all of them are issued shotguns or rifles in addition to their service handguns. This is the norm for [I]most [/I]sheriffs and state troopers nationwide; it is only in urban areas that the police report for duty at a headquarters with a locker room. The officers on my route remove the shotguns and rifles out of the trunk of the patrol car when they get home and secure them in a county-issued gun safe in their house. As far as the county being somehow "liable" for the [I]off-duty[/I] actions of one of its officers who uses a county-issued weapon during the comission of a crime....that is complete hogwash. The bottom line is that anyone can file a lawsuit for anything, but that doesnt mean they will prevail in a court of law. I would be interested to hear about any [I]actual[/I], [I]real world[/I] incidents where a police agency was [I]successfully[/I] sued due to the weapon involved being county issue vs. privately owned. Cops have a stressful job, and I am all for providing more counseling or mental-health resources for them when needed. But the idea that leaving their duty weapons behind when they go home will somehow reduce the liability of the agency that issued them is fiction, not legal fact. [/QUOTE]
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