[ali_m]

> I'm sure they'd love to carry guns around

Some of them would, but perhaps not a majority. When the Police Federation most recently surveyed their members on this question in 2017 [1], 66% were opposed to routinely arming officers with firearms (although that number is down from 82% in 2006).

[1] https://www.polfed.org/our-work/operational-policing/firearm...

[smcl]

Pleasantly surprised by that, though the decline is a bit concerning.