(January 18, 2016 at 5:02 pm)Pandæmonium Wrote: The article speaks the truth when it says there is no appetite here for arming police, but that obviously the U.S., and poor inner cities are a different kettle of fish.
You know, I never got to the bottom of how the system of officers not carrying firearms came about in the UK. I ask that question for about a decade now and browsed the web intensively for some historic background, but I never found anything of value on the topic.
Do you know where it origins?