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Originally Posted by 18C4V
I'm an active LEO and a Supevisor. There's better ways of skinning that cat. I'm going out on a limb and assuming that agency does not interact with open carry laws nor does it have a policy to deal with it.
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Probably a fair assessment. In WI where (currently) open-carry is the only legal recourse available because the law is mute in that regard, simply doing so makes one a target of the "he's just making a point about his rights" moniker. Several municipalities have found their coffers emptier for FTFSI when the AG even counselled in an advisory memo,
"Look folks, absent any other criminal circumstances, the simple presence of a holstered gun is NOT cause for a disorderly conduct charge or anything beyond a brief investigative encounter following a man-with-gun call." Departments that weren't in a coma have incorporated the dynamic in their policies and everyone drives on.
Hopefully that will soon change with codification of OC or CC on the books, since the same folks that cried "no hidden guns!" are the first ones to cry "oh, please put the offending things from our sight!"
I OC when in state but have no problems; then again, as TS advises, I don't make a point of being the 2nd belligerent asshat when there's already one at the scene. Most officers I know respond to civility as much as anyone.