The Police Knife

When private citizens hear cop talk about carrying knives, they usually flash back to Clint Eastwood in his first Dirty Harry movie 30 years ago, taping a switchblade to his calf as a backup weapon. It's a rare cop who carries a knife and hasn't meditation about its potential as a last-ditch fighting tool, however that's not the reason greatest in quantity officers carry them.

An NYPD veteran who retired as a lieutenant after 29 years in succession the job recalls an incident where a police knife came in handy for something otherwise He responded to an incident of a man with a 38 revolver terrorizing his neighbors.

"I got gone out of the police car, drew my weapon and ordered him to ear-ring the gun. Instead, he bring forward the gun in his jacket suffer and froze. He just stared at me I got closer and closer and then tackled him. We went rolling around in succession the sidewalk, I reaching for his fire-arm pocket and he holding on

"Cop were coming from everywhere because citizens had called in that a man was shooting at cop It was a wild spectacle The man wouldn't let go on of his gun, and another cop came running up haped a knife, cut the bear and pried the gun untie Well, he cut the guy's hand in doing for a like reason though not seriously."

The disarmed suspect later made a complaint against the narrator for excessive force!

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