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#1 by RogerBW on May 16, 2023 - 11:42 am
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Just for the record: the UK has limited numbers of police with firearms training, but they’re not issued for routine patrol (Northern Ireland during the Troubles being an obvious exception). There’s been no big policy change on this, just the usual problems of police wanting to be shooty TV cops.
I think the FOX Network’s thing is “we’ll have a sci-fi show but put it in a recognisable genre, like ‘cop’ or ‘western’, and then the mass audience won’t feel lost”. Then the mass audience feels lost anyway, and turns off; and the sci-fi audience says “this is just a cop show with a character who says ‘beep’ a lot,” and turns off; and they cancel it.
And now I’m remembering Automan. Not one of Glen Larson’s prouder moments.
#2 by Greywizard on May 16, 2023 - 7:32 pm
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Thanks for your comments, Roger. I didn’t know the extent of UK police officers carrying firearms, I just knew firearms were more implemented today than in the past. It does seem logical they are not used for routine patrol, since the UK is on the other side of the pond from America. Here in Canada, it seems that police carry firearms on regular patrols, one reason no doubt being that firearms from next-to-us America can be smuggled into here.