• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I thought police holsters are suppose to be very good at preventing exactly this. Requiring a specific angle, that is only natural for the wearer, to unholster.

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      I believe police holsters are required to have a button strap or some other type of retention feature to keep it in place.

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      8 months ago

      That leaves two possibilities. I don’t like either one. Either they’re not actually good at preventing that or the cop had the gun out of the holster

      Edit: Third option: the whole story is a lie

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        8 months ago

        The second one isn’t a huge shock to me. I heard a few days ago that at my daughter’s former middle school (so glad we got her out of there), the “resource officer,” (a cop) left his gun on the bathroom sink. A kid found it. Thankfully, he did the right thing and went straight to the office.

        Amazingly, the cop was fired.

        But this is the intelligence level you’re dealing with when it comes to cops.