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May 27, 2005

CA Cops Not Trusted With Guns?

In California, even cops aren't trusted to have guns! From the North Country Times:

ESCONDIDO ---- Calling last year's San Diego County Fair a "model of a safe and secure public event," fair officials are maintaining for the second year a policy banning off-duty law enforcement officers from carrying their guns beyond the front gate.

The move has prompted the Escondido Police Officers Association to urge law enforcement officers regionwide to boycott the fair.

In a letter sent Wednesday to the fair's general manager, association President Paul Woodward said he will encourage Escondido association members "and all San Diego County law enforcement and their families" to stay away from this year's event June 10 to July 4 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

Linda Zweig, fairgrounds spokeswoman, said Thursday that the 2004 fair "came off as a model of a safe and secure public event," because of stepped-up security measures such as video cameras and metal detectors, as well as a "substantial and highly visible security force."

"Our incident rate at the fairgrounds is low," Zweig said, explaining the ban on off-duty officers carrying guns. "We want to provide a safe venue."

I guess the implication is that off-duty police would make the San Diego Fair, er, unsafe?

Posted by Jeff Soyer at May 27, 2005 07:12 AM

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IIRC, Palo Alto, CA, had a policy for a while, at least, of not arming its ON DUTY officers. That was back in the mid 70s, I think.

Posted by: Ken Summers at May 27, 2005 09:57 AM

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